12Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.
13For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.
14This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.
15And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?
16But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.
17Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
18I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?
