Verse 8
2 Corinthians 11:8
Geneva Bible
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I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.
Original Language Text
greek
ἄλλας ἐκκλησίας ἐσύλησα λαβὼν ὀψώνιον πρὸς τὴν ὑμῶν διακονίαν,
English Translation
I robbed other churches, receiving wages for your ministry.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 11 Context
1
Woulde to God (Elohim), yee coulde suffer a litle my foolishnes, and in deede, ye suffer me.
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2
For I am ielous ouer you, with godly ielousie: for I haue prepared you for one husband, to present y...
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3
But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corru...
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4
For if he that commeth, preacheth another Iesus whome we haue not preached: or if yee receiue anothe...
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5
Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.
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6
And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you wee haue beene made ma...
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7
Haue I committed an offence, because I abased my selfe, that ye might be exalted, and because I prea...
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8
I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.
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And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: f...
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10
The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of...
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11
Wherefore? because I loue you not? God (Elohim) knoweth.
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12
But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that...
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13
For such false apostles are deceitfull workers, and transforme themselues into the Apostles of Chris...
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14
And no marueile: for Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light.
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15
Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transforme themselues, as though they were the...
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16
I say againe, Let no man thinke that I am foolish, or els take mee euen as a foole, that I also may...
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17
That I speake, I speake it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.
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18
Seeing that many reioyce after the flesh, I will reioyce also.
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19
For ye suffer fooles gladly, because that yee are wise.
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20
For ye suffer, euen if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure you, if a man take your goods,...
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21
I speake as concerning the reproche: as though that we had bene weake: but wherein any man is bold (...
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22
They are Hebrues, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seede of Abraham, so am I:
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23
They are the ministers of Christ (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant: in stri...
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24
Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I fourtie stripes saue one.
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25
I was thrise beaten with roddes: I was once stoned: I suffered thrise shipwracke: night and day haue...
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26
In iourneying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine owne nation,...
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27
In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold...
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28
Beside the thinges which are outwarde, I am combred dayly, and haue the care of all the Churches.
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29
Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?
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30
If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.
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31
The God (Elohim), euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth t...
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32
In Damascus the gouernour of the people vnder King Aretas, layde watch in the citie of the Damascens...
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33
But at a window was I let downe in a basket through the wall, and escaped his handes.
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