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2 Corinthians 12:16 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 12 · verse 16
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.2 Corinthians 12:16 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 12:16 in context
14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
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Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- neverthelessallabut, nevertheless, notwithstanding, an objection, an exception, a restriction, nay…G235 →
- caughtlambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- guiledoloscraft, deceit, guileG1388 →
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In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways: - I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-21