47:012:013 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches,
           except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive
           me this wrong.

47:012:014 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will
           not be burdensome to you:  for I seek not your’s but you:  for
           the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the
           parents for the children.

47:012:015 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the
           more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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.

47:013:005 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
           selves.  Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is
           in you, except ye be reprobates?

47:013:006 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

47:013:007 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should
           appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest,
           though we be as reprobates.