¹³ For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that ^(A)I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me ^(B)this wrong!

¹⁴ Here ^(C)for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I ^(D)will not be a burden to you; for I ^(E)do not seek what is yours, but ^(F)you; for ^(G)children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but ^(H)parents for their children. ¹⁵ I will ^(I)most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If ^(J)I love you more, am I to be loved less? ¹⁶ But be that as it may, I ^(K)did not burden you myself; nevertheless, devious person that I am, I ^(L)took you in by deceit. ^17 (M)Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I? ¹⁸ I ^(N)urged ^(O)Titus to go, and I sent ^(P)the brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not ^[a]conduct ourselves ^[b]in the same ^(Q)spirit and walk ^(R)in the same steps?

¹⁹ All this time ^[c]you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, ^(S)it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and ^(T)all for building you up, ^(U)beloved. ²⁰ For I am afraid that perhaps ^(V)when I come I may find you to be not what I wish, and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be ^(W)strife, jealousy, ^(X)angry tempers, ^(Y)selfishness, ^(Z)slanders, ^(AA)gossip, ^(AB)arrogance, ^(AC)disturbances; ²¹ I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have ^(AD)sinned in the past and not repented of the ^(AE)impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent behavior which they have practiced.

¹⁶ But be that as it may, I ^(A)did not burden you myself; nevertheless, devious person that I am, I ^(B)took you in by deceit.