| 13 | 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! |
| 14 | Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children. |
| 15 | I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less? |
| 16 | But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by guile. |
| 17 | Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? |
| 18 | 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? |