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2 Corinthians 11:8 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 11 · verse 8
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.2 Corinthians 11:8 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 11:8 in context
6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9And 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.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- churchesekklēsiaa gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly…G1577 →
- servicediakoniaservice, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others, of those who by…G1248 →
- takinglambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- wagesopsōniona soldier's pay, allowance, that part of the soldier's support given in place of pay…G3800 →
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After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles - that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles, Co2 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so. He might have spoken very positively.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-15