2 Corinthians 12:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

2 Corinthians 12:16 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 7:2
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Corinthians 10:2-3
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways:— I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication. They in manner compelled him to commend himself, who ought to have been commended of them 2 Cor. 12:11. And had they,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. I did not burden you--The “I” in the Greek is emphatic. A possible insinuation of the Corinthians is hereby anticipated and refuted: “But, you may say, granted that I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you (in my net) with guile”; namely, made a gain of you by means of others (1Th 2:3).