2 Corinthians 12:17

Webster's Bible Translation

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Did I cheat you by using any of the men I sent to you? You know I didn't.

Revised Standard Version
Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Did I pill you by eny of the which I sent vnto you?

Hebrew Names Version
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

New American Standard Bible
Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?

New Century Version
Did I cheat you by using any of the messengers I sent to you? No, you know I did not.

Update Bible Version
Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent to you?

English Standard Version
Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

World English Bible
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?

Weymouth's New Testament
Have I gained any selfish advantage over you through any one of the messengers I have sent to you?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Y disseyuede you bi ony of hem, which Y sente to you?

English Revised Version
Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

Berean Standard Bible
Did I overreach by anyone I sent you?

Contemporary English Version
Were you cheated by any of those I sent to you?

Amplified Bible
Did I take advantage of you or make any money off you through any of the messengers I sent you? [Certainly not!]

American Standard Version
Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

Bible in Basic English
Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

Complete Jewish Bible
Was it perhaps through someone I sent you

Darby Translation
Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?

International Standard Version
I did not take advantage of you through any of the men I sent you, did I?2 Corinthians 7:2;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
By any other whom I have sent to you have I made prey of you?

Murdock Translation
Was it by the hand of some other person whom I sent to you, that I pilfered from you?

King James Version (1611)
Did I make a gaine of you by any of them, whom I sent vnto you?

New Living Translation
But how? Did any of the men I sent to you take advantage of you?

New Life Bible
How could I have done that? Did I get anything from you through the men I sent to you?

New Revised Standard
Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?

George Lamsa Translation
Why? Did I extort anything from you by any of the men whom I sent to you?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Was there, anyone of those whom I have sent unto you, through whom I have overreached you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dyd I pyll you by any of them who I sent vnto you?

Good News Translation
How? Did I take advantage of you through any of the messengers I sent?

Christian Standard Bible®
Did I take advantage of you by any of those I sent you?

King James Version
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

Lexham English Bible
I have not taken advantage of you through anyone whom I sent to you, have I?

Literal Translation
By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?

Young's Literal Translation
any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Haue I defrauded you by eny of the, who I sent vnto you?

Mace New Testament (1729)
what, did I make a gain of you by any body I sent to you?

New English Translation
I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?

New King James Version
Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

Simplified Cowboy Version
Do y'all think I cheated you? Did the cowboys I send to y'all take advantage of you somehow?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?

Legacy Standard Bible
Have I taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you?

Contextual Overview

¹¹ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very greatest apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. ¹³ For what is that in which ye were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. ¹⁴ Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. ¹⁶ But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. ¹⁷ Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps? ¹⁹ Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edification. ²⁰ For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 12:18, 2 Kings 5:16, 2 Kings 5:20-27, 1 Corinthians 4:17, 1 Corinthians 16:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:32 - before Acts 20:33 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:5 - a cloak 2 Peter 1:16 - we have 2 Peter 2:3 - through

Cross-References

Genesis 12:14
And it came to pass, that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.

Genesis 12:15
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had made barren all the females of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

1 Chronicles 16:21
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

1 Chronicles 21:22
Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshing-floor, that I may build an altar in it to the LORD: thou shalt grant it to me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Job 34:19
[How much less to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all [are] the work of his hands.

Hebrews 13:4
Marriage [is] honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Did I make a gain of you,.... He appeals to the Corinthians against such calumnies and false insinuations, whether ever he had circumvented them in such a manner, or had ever used such artful methods to pillage them; or whether ever he had discovered any covetous disposition towards anything of theirs; or had employed any persons to draw out their substance from them, and get it for himself: he owns he had sent some persons to them on different errands, and asks if he had dealt fraudulently with them,

by any of them whom, says he,

I have sent to you: he desires them to name one single person of the many who came to them from him, that had received any money from them for him; or that they had any reason to believe he had employed for such purposes; and if they could not pitch on a single instance, they ought therefore to look upon this as a downright slander and calumny.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Did I make a gain ... - In refuting this slander, Paul appeals boldly to the facts, and to what they knew. “Same the man,” says he, “who has thus defrauded you under my instructions. If the charge is well-founded, let him be specified, and let the mode in which it was done be distinctly stated.” The phrase “make a gain” (from πλεονεκτέω pleonekteō), means properly to have an advantage; then to take advantage, to seek unlawful gain. Here Paul asks whether he had defrauded them by means of anyone whom he had sent to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. Did I make a gain of you — Did any person I ever sent to preach the Gospel to you, or help you in your Christian course, ever get any thing from you for me? Produce the proof if you can.