12:11 I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison 9 to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing. 12:12 Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance 10 by signs and wonders and powerful deeds. 11 12:13 For how 12 were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice! 12:14 Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have 13 to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 12:15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! 14 If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 12:16 But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit! 12:17 I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I? 15 12:18 I urged Titus to visit you 16 and I sent our 17 brother along with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? 18 Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not behave in the same way? 19 12:19 Have you been thinking all this time 20 that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up. 21 12:20 For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me 22 not what you wish. I am afraid that 23 somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, 24 slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. 12:21 I am afraid that 25 when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for 26 many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.