2 Corinthians 11:8

American Standard Version (1901)

I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .
  • Phil 4:14-16 : 14 Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction. 15 And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but ye only; 16 for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I 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 glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

  • 2 Cor 12:13-17
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    13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

    14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden 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.

    15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

  • 1 Cor 9:17-19
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    17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

    19For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 8:13-14
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    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

    14but by equality: your abundance [being a supply] at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become [a supply] for your want; that there may be equality:

  • Acts 20:33-34
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    33I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

    34Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

  • 2 Cor 8:3-4
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    3For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,

    4beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • Mal 3:8
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    8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

  • 2 Cor 9:4-5
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    4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:19-20
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    19and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in [the matter of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness:

    20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:

  • Phil 4:15-17
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    15And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but ye only;

    16for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.

    17Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18But if he hath wronged thee at all, or oweth [thee] aught, put that to mine account;

    19I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.

  • 2 Cor 8:8-9
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    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

    9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 8:1
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    1Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

  • 2 Cor 11:28
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    28Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

  • Gal 2:10
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    10only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • Rom 15:16
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    16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • Rom 15:31
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    31that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

  • 2 Cor 9:12-13
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    12For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;

    13seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;

  • 2 Cor 1:16
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    16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.

  • 1 Cor 9:14-15
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    14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • Phil 2:30
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    30because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

  • Col 1:25
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    25whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,