15. and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.
16. And be it [so], I--I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;
17. any one of those whom I have sent unto you--by him did I take advantage of you?
18. I entreated Titus, and did send with [him] the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? --did we not in the same steps?
19. Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, [are] for your up-building,
20. for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evilspeakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,
21. lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.