2 Corinthians 12:11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
2 Corinthians 12:11 ESV
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:13 ESV
For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
2 Corinthians 12:15 ESV
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
2 Corinthians 12:16 ESV
But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit.
2 Corinthians 12:18 ESV
I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
2 Corinthians 12:19 ESV
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.