¹⁴ See, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not seek your possessions, but you. After all, the children should not have to save up for their parents, but the parents for their children. ¹⁵ But I will very gladly spend and be completely spent on behalf of your souls. If I love you all the more, am I to be loved that much less? ¹⁶ But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Oh, but I was just being crafty and using deceit to exploit you, wasn’t I! ¹⁷ Did I ever take advantage of you through any one of the men I sent to you? ¹⁸ I urged Titus to go and sent our brother with him. Surely Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not walk in the same spirit—in the very same footprints?