14. Look, I’m ready to visit you a third time, and I won’t be a burden on you. I don’t want your things; I want you. It isn’t the children’s responsibility to save up for their parents but parents for children.
15. I will very gladly spend and be spent for your sake. If I love you more, will you love me less?
16. We all know that I didn’t place a burden on you, but in spite of that you think I’m a con artist who fooled you with a trick.
17. I haven’t taken advantage of you through any of the people I sent to you, have I?
18. I strongly encouraged Titus to go to you and sent the brother with him. Titus didn’t take advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we live by the same Spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same footsteps?