2 Corinthians 11:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For 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.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
  • Acts 18:1-3 : 1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; 2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
  • 1 Cor 4:10-12 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14-18 : 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:8-12
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    8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

    9And 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.

    11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-19
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    15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

    16For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

    17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

    18What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

    19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For 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.

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
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    15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

    16But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-6
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    5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

    6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

    11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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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.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-17
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    16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

    17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Rom 15:16-18
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    16That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

    17I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

    12Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

    13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

  • Gal 5:11
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    11And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

  • Acts 11:17
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    17Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

  • 1 Cor 10:30
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    30For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

  • 2 Cor 7:12
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    12Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

  • Phil 1:17
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    17But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

  • 2 Cor 11:29
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?