Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Holman Bible
Or did I commit a sin by humbling
International Standard Version
Did I commit a sin when I humbled myself by proclaiming to you the gospel of God free of charge, so that you could be exalted?
A Conservative Version
Or did I commit a sin lowering myself so that ye might be lifted up, because I preached to you the good-news of God freely?
American Standard Version
Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
Amplified
Or did I [perhaps] sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted and honored, because I preached God’s gospel to you
An Understandable Version
Or, did I sin by putting myself down in order to build you people up, because I preached the Gospel of God to you without taking [financial] support?
Anderson New Testament
Have I committed a sin, in making myself lowly, that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel to you without cost?
Bible in Basic English
Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?
Common New Testament
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
Daniel Mace New Testament
If I have degraded myself for your advantage by preaching the holy gospel to you gratis, is that such a trespass?
Darby Translation
Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
Godbey New Testament
Did I commit sin humbling myself that you may be exalted, because I preached unto you the gospel of God gratuitously?
Goodspeed New Testament
Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?
John Wesley New Testament
Have I committed an offence in humbling myself, that ye might be exalted, because I have preached the gospel of God to you at free cost?
Julia Smith Translation
Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously?
King James 2000
Have I committed an offense in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or did I commit a sin [by] humbling myself in order that you may be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you without payment?
Modern King James verseion
Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Did I therein sin, because I submitted myself, that ye might be exalted? And because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?
Moffatt New Testament
But perhaps I did wrong in taking a humble place that you might have a high one ??I mean, in preaching the gospel of God to you for nothing!
Montgomery New Testament
Is it a sin, forsooth, that I humbled myself that you might be exalted, in preaching the gospel to you free of cost?
NET Bible
Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?
New Heart English Bible
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?
Noyes New Testament
Did I commit an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God without charge?
Sawyer New Testament
Have I done wrong to humble myself that you might be exalted, that I preached the gospel of God to you gratuitously?
The Emphasized Bible
Or, a sin, did I commit - abasing, myself, that, ye, might be exalted, - in that, free of charge, God's glad-message, I announced unto you?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Am I chargeable with a fault (humbling myself that you might be exalted), that I preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted--I mean because I told you God's Good News without payment.
Webster
Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God without reward?
Weymouth New Testament
Is it a sin that I abased myself in order for you to be exalted, in that I proclaimed God's Good News to you without fee or reward?
Williams New Testament
Did I do wrong in taking a lowly place to let you have an exalted one, in that I preached the good news about God to you without accepting any pay?
World English Bible
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?
Worrell New Testament
Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself, that ye might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of God without cost?
Worsley New Testament
Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted? and in that I have preached the gospel of God to you gratis?
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 11:7
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Context Readings
Paul Defends His Apostleship
6 and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you. 7 The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you? 8 other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:13
for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!
Acts 18:1-3
And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,
Acts 20:34
and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;
1 Corinthians 4:10-12
we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
1 Corinthians 9:6
or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?
1 Corinthians 9:12
if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:14-18
so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.
2 Corinthians 10:1
And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed am humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,
1 Thessalonians 2:9
for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;