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2 Corinthians 11:8 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do ➔ you service. "
2 Corinthians 11:8
Verse in Context
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But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do ➔ you service.
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.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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2 Corinthians 11:1
"Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me."
2 Corinthians 11:2
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."
2 Corinthians 11:3
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
2 Corinthians 11:4
"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have ➔ not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have ➔ not received, or another gospel, which ye have ➔ not accepted, ye might ➔ well bear with him."
2 Corinthians 11:5
"For I suppose I was ➔ not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."
2 Corinthians 11:6
"But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things."
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