47:012:016 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being
crafty, I caught you with guile.
47:012:017 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
47:012:018 I 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?
47:012:019 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak
before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved,
for your edifying.
47:012:020 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I
would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would
not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
47:012:021 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you,
and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and
have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and
lasciviousness which they have committed.
47:013:001 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
47:013:002 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
47:013:003 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
47:013:004 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by
the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall
live with him by the power of God toward you.