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2 Corinthians 12:16
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2 Corinthians 12:16
16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
16But be it so: I did not burthen you: neuerthelesse beeing craftie, I caught you with guile.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 12:16
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A load carried; a weight, hardship, duty, or responsibility; also a solemn message laid upon a speaker.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
nevertheless
Not the less; even so; despite the preceding circumstance or objection.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To catch: to seize, capture, overtake, entangle, or take hold of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
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Open the full verse study5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
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Open the full verse study12For 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.
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Open the full verse study2But 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.
3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
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Open the full verse study9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Open the full verse study13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
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Open the full verse study2But 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.
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Open the full verse study2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
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Open the full verse study3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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