And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethre which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe my selfe, that I should not be grieuous to you.
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7Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you ye Gospell of God freely?
8I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.
10The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of Achaia.
13For what is it, wherein yee were inferiours vnto other Churches, except that I haue not bene slouthfull to your hinderance? forgiue me this wrong.
14Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.
15And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your soules: though the more I loue you, the lesse I am loued.
16But bee it that I charged you not: yet for as much as I was craftie, I tooke you with guile.
17Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you?
1For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you.
13Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:
14That also their aboundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie:
15As it is written, Hee that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that gathered litle, had not the lesse.
17For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me.
18What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.
19For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.
8Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.
9Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.
3Nowe haue I sent the brethren, lest our reioycing ouer you shoulde bee in vaine in this behalfe, that yee (as I haue sayde) be readie:
4Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and finde you vnprepared, we (that wee may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting.
5Wherefore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren to come before vnto you, and to finish your beneuolence appointed afore, that it might be readie, and come as of beneuolence, and not as of niggardlinesse.
9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day & night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.
15And yee Philippians knowe also that in the beginning of the Gospell, when I departed from Macedonia, no Church communicated with me, concerning the matter of giuing and receiuing, but yee onely.
16For euen when I was in Thessalonica, yee sent once, and afterward againe for my necessitie,
17Not that I desire a gift: but I desire the fruit which may further your reckoning.
18Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smelleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God.
15But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.
16And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth towarde Iudea of you.
13Whom I woulde haue reteined with mee, that in thy steade he might haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospel.
14But without thy minde woulde I doe nothing, that thy benefite should not be as it were of necessitie, but willingly.
33I haue coueted no mans siluer, nor gold, nor apparell.
34Yea, ye knowe, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
2Because in great triall of affliction their ioy abounded, and their most extreeme pouertie abounded vnto their rich liberalitie.
3For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyonde their power, they were willing,
6Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.
19(And not so onely, but is also chosen of the Churches to be a fellowe in our iourney, concerning this grace that is ministred by vs vnto the glorie of the same Lorde, and declaration of your prompt minde)
20Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,
5Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.
10Warning onely that we should remember the poore: which thing also I was diligent to doe.
28Beside the thinges which are outwarde, I am combred dayly, and haue the care of all the Churches.
19I Paul haue written this with mine owne hande: I will recompense it, albeit I doe not say to thee, that thou owest moreouer vnto me euen thine owne selfe.
13I had no rest in my spirit, because I founde not Titus my brother, but tooke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.
30Because that for the woorke of Christ he was neere vnto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfill that seruice which was lacking on your part towarde me.
23Nowe, I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.
6Or I only and Barnabas, haue not we power not to worke?
12Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.
5Nowe I will come vnto you, after I haue gone through Macedonia (for I will passe through Macedonia.)
12But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.
3And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shal alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem.
10Nowe I reioyce also in the Lord greatly, that nowe at the last your care for mee springeth afresh, wherein notwithstanding ye were careful, but yee lacked opportunitie.
13Now my brethren, I would that ye should not be ignorant, how that I haue oftentimes purposed to come vnto you (but haue bene let hitherto) that I might haue some fruite also among you, as I haue among the other Gentiles.