2 Corinthians 11:7

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Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

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  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.
  • Acts 18:1-3 : 1 Paul at Corinth After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them, 3 and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them(for they were tentmakers by trade).
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.
  • 1 Cor 4:10-12 : 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads. 12 We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,
  • 1 Cor 9:6 : 6 Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:14-18 : 14 In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel. 15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting! 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility. 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Paul’s Authority from the Lord Now I, Paul, appeal to you personally by the meekness and gentleness of Christ(I who am meek when present among you, but am full of courage toward you when away!)–

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 11:8-12
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    8I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

    9When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

    11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

    12And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-19
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

    17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
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    15Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

    16But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

    17I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-6
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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

    6And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

    11Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy 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 to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-17
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    16Paul’s Sufferings for Christ I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

    17What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

  • Rom 15:16-18
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    16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    17So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Gal 4:11-13
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    11I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

    12I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

    13Personal Appeal of Paul But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1The Rights of an Apostle Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

  • Gal 5:11
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    11Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

  • Acts 11:17
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    17Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?”

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

  • 1 Cor 10:30
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    30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

  • 2 Cor 7:12
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    12So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

  • Phil 1:17
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    17The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3We do not give anyone an occasion for taking an offense in anything, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.

  • 2 Cor 11:29
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?