2 Corinthians 11:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And 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].
  • Phil 4:14-16 : 14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. 15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

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  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 12:13-17
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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.

    14Behold, 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.

    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?

  • 1 Cor 9:17-19
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    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.

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

  • 2 Cor 8:13-14
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    13For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

    14But by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:

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

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

  • 2 Cor 8:3-4
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    3For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;

    4Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

  • 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:

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1¶ For 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 have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

  • 2 Cor 9:4-5
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    4Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

    5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 8:19-20
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    19And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

    20Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

  • Phil 4:15-17
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    15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

    16For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

    17Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account;

    19I Paul have written [it] with mine own hand, I will repay [it]: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

  • 2 Cor 8:8-9
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    8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity 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 be rich.

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

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 8:1
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    1¶ Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

  • 2 Cor 11:28
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    28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

  • Gal 2:10
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    10Only [they would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

  • Rom 15:16
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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.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    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.

  • Rom 15:31
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    31That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;

  • 2 Cor 9:12-13
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    12For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

    13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men];

  • 2 Cor 1:16
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    16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

  • 1 Cor 9:14-15
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    14Even 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.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10¶ For 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.

  • 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 was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1¶ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

  • Col 1:25
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    25Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;