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Or Did I Sin By Not Letting You Pay Me?

Or[a] did I commit a sin [by] humbling myself in order that you might be exalted— because I freely[b] announced-as-good-news to you the good-news of God? I robbed[c] other churches, having taken rations[d] from them for your ministry! And while being present with you and having been in-need, I did not burden anyone— for the brothers having come from Macedonia supplied my need. And in every way I kept and will keep myself unburdensome to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:7 Paul brings up one way in which his opponents would have regarded him as inferior.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:7 Paul did not earn his living from his teaching. He supported himself, taking no money from them.
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:8 Or, plundered, sacked. Paul is sarcastically referring to the fact that he accepted money from other churches to support his work among the Corinthians.
  4. 2 Corinthians 11:8 Or, wages.

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