2 Corinthians 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

I robbed other churches, taking wages from them, to serve you.

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  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.
  • Phil 4:14-16 : 14 Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my affliction. 15 Now you Philippians know also that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again for my needs.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

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  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • 2 Cor 12:13-17
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    13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except 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 should not 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 am 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 those whom I sent to you?

  • 1 Cor 9:17-19
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    17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

    19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.

  • 2 Cor 8:13-14
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    13For I do not mean that others should be relieved and you burdened;

    14But by equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, and their abundance may supply your lack, that there may be equality:

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

    34Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me.

  • 2 Cor 8:3-4
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    3For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they were willing of themselves;

    4Earnestly pleading with us for the privilege of participating in the service to the saints.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but we worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1Concerning the service to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you:

  • Mal 3:8
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    8Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, 'In what way have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

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

    5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brethren, that they would go ahead to you and prepare in advance your generous gift, which had been promised before, that it might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not as of covetousness.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: for working night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:19-20
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    19And not only that, but who was also chosen by the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show your eager willingness.

    20Avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

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

    16For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again for my needs.

    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 has wronged you or owes you anything, put that on my account;

    19I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it: although I do not say to you that you owe me even your own self besides.

  • 2 Cor 8:8-9
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    8I speak not by commandment, but as a test of the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13Whom I wished to keep with me, so that he might minister to me in your place in my chains for the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 8:1
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    1Moreover, brothers and sisters, we want you to know of the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia;

  • 2 Cor 11:28
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    28Besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.

  • Gal 2:10
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    10They only desired that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • Rom 15:31
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    31That I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;

  • 2 Cor 9:12-13
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    12For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but is also abundant through many thanksgivings to God;

    13While by the evidence of this ministry they glorify God for your professed submission to the gospel of Christ, and for your generous sharing with them, and with all men;

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

  • 1 Cor 9:14-15
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    14Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy 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 close to death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have instructed the churches of Galatia, so you must do as well.

  • Col 1:25
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    25Of which I was made a minister, according to the stewardship of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;