New Revised Standard Version
Let it be assumed that I did not burden you. Nevertheless (you say) since I was crafty, I took you in by deceit.

Contemporary English Version
You agree that I wasn't a burden to you. Maybe that's because I was trying to catch you off guard and trick you.

New American Bible
But granted that I myself did not burden you, yet I was crafty and got the better of you by deceit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

I did not.

2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

2 Corinthians 11:9,10 And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself. . . .

being.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 7:2 Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we have overreached no man.

2 Corinthians 10:2,3 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:3,5 For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit. . . .

1 Peter 2:3 If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.