2 Corinthians 11:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

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  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
  • Phil 4:14-16 : 14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction. 15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. 16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

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  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Gospel free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 12:13-17
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    13For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

    14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

    15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

    17Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

  • 1 Cor 9:17-19
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    17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

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

    19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 8:13-14
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    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

    14but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

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

    34You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

  • 2 Cor 8:3-4
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    3For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

    4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

  • 2 Thess 3:8
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    8neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

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

  • 2 Cor 9:4-5
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    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

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

  • 2 Cor 8:19-20
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    19Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

    20We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  • Phil 4:15-17
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    15You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

    16For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

    17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

  • Phlm 1:18-19
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    18But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.

    19I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

  • 2 Cor 8:8-9
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    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Gospel.

  • 2 Cor 8:1
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    1Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

  • 2 Cor 11:28
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    28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

  • Gal 2:10
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    10They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • Rom 15:16
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    16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • Rom 15:31
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    31that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

  • 2 Cor 9:12-13
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    12For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

    13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

  • 2 Cor 1:16
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    16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

  • 1 Cor 9:14-15
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    14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Gospel should live from the Gospel.

    15But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

  • Phil 2:30
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    30because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

  • Col 1:25
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    25of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,