2 Corinthians 12:14-17

14Listen to me! This is the third time that I am ready to visit you. I will not ask you to give anything to me. I do not want any of your things. Instead, I want you yourselves. You are like my children. Children should not have to supply what their parents need. It is parents who should supply what their children need.

15So I will be happy to give everything that I have to you. I will be happy to give myself too, because I want to help you. Perhaps I love you too much! But that should not mean that you will love me less than you should.

16I did not give you trouble. You surely know that. But some of you say that I deceived you. You think that I was clever and I got money from you.

17That is not true! When I sent people to you, they never cheated you on my behalf.