2 Corinthians 11:7

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Summary

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority,

for in what were ye inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? an injury I hope you will easily forgive.

After this Paul left Athens and arriv'd at Corinth:

you yourselves can witness, that what was necessary for myself and those who were with me, these very hands have supply'd.

we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.

or I and Barnabas, are we only excluded the privilege of not working?

for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.

that we did not eat any man's bread for nothing: but with toil and fatigue work'd night and day to avoid being chargeable to any of you: