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13 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong![a]

14 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?

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  1. 12.13 Paul ironically asks forgiveness for not being a charge on them as the other apostles were.

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