2 Corinthians 12:16

1 Peter 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 10:2; 2 Corinthians 10:3; 2 Corinthians 11:10; 2 Corinthians 11:9; 2 Corinthians 12:13; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 7:2

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 12:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But be it so - This is evidently a charge of his enemies; or at least a charge which it might be supposed they would make. Whether they ever in f...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(6) But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. (6) He sets aside another most grievous slander, that i...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Retrospect of the Boasting. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt sei...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

burden . Greek. katatareo. Only here. being . Greek. huparcho. It means being essentially, from the beginning. See Luke 9:48 . crafty. Gre...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. But be it so. These words intimate, that Paul had been blamed by malevolent persons, as though he had in a clandestine way procured, thr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. But be it so, I did not burden you - That is: You grant that...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you, &c.— But be it so that I did not burden you, yet [perhaps it will be suggested] that, being a crafty dec...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. I did not burden you. The "I" (Greek) is emphatic. A...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

His Privileges and Trials The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Paraphrase. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not your possession...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

But be it so ] He now meets another insinuation: this one is disposed of.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you. — The pronoun is again emphatic. The word for “burden” is not the same as in 2 Corinthians 12:13-14 , but puts...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“I Seek not Yours, but You” 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean S...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But be it so, I did not burden you ,.... These words are not spoken by the apostle in his own person of himself, but in the person of his adversarie...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. Ver. 16. Being crafty I caught ] A blessed craft, a high...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be it so , &c. But some may object; though I did not burden you Though I did not take any thing of you myself; yet being crafty, I caught you...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Expostulations. A. D. 57. 11 I am b...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I hear what some say: It is true, that when I was myself with you, I laid no burden upon you, did not put upon you any collection for me; but, like a...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Assures Them of His Care For Them ( 2 Corinthians 12:14-18 ). He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time. But when he d...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But be it so, I did not myself burden you, but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.' And yet if it is to be so, it must be so. For he is aware o...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES ( No break, except that of a new paragraph .) 2 Corinthians 12:1 .—Note reading; probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 12:1 . It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. To disclosures of the divi...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him ( 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 ). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" ( 2 Corinthians 12:7-47 ). One mo...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

What Paul Expects of the Corinthians. Their love should have commended him in his love for them:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But be it so, I did not burden you; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. Paul here turns the fact of his boasting against the Cori...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But some may object, though I did not burden you, though I did not take anything of you myself, yet being crafty I caught you with guile — I did se...

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

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 12:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Corinthians 12:16