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2 Corinthians 12:14

James Moffatt - New Testament

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

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Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number — at their salvation.

Each of us must consult his neighbour's interests, not his own.

Relying on this I meant to visit you first, to let you have a double delight;

how (as you know) we treated each of you as a father treats his children, beseeching you, encouraging you, and charging you

Silver, gold, or apparel I never coveted;

fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well — you had so won our love.

It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

So then, my brothers, for whom I cherish love and longing, my joy and crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, O my beloved.

I mean to visit you after my tour in Macedonia, for I am going to make a tour through Macedonia.

and if anyone is hungry let him eat at home. You must not gather, only to incur condemnation. I will give you my instructions upon the other matters when I come.

I will come to you before long, if the Lord wills, and then I will find out from these puffed up creatures not what their talk but what their power amounts to.

If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

And my reward? This, that I can preach the gospel free of charge, that I can refrain from insisting on all my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.

Where were you inferior to the rest of the churches? — unless in this, that your apostle did not choose to make himself a burden to you. Pray pardon me this terrible wrong!

O my dear children, you with whom I am in travail over again till Christ be formed within you,




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