Verse 8
2 Corinthians 11:8
Literal Standard Version
8
I robbed other assemblies, having taken wages, for your ministry;
Original Language Text
greek
ἄλλας ἐκκλησίας ἐσύλησα λαβὼν ὀψώνιον πρὸς τὴν ὑμῶν διακονίαν,
English Translation
I robbed other churches, receiving wages for your ministry.
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Chapter 11 Context
1
O that you were bearing with me a little of the folly, but you also bear with me:
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for I am zealous for you with zeal of God (Elohim), for I betrothed you to one Husband, a pure virgi...
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and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from t...
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for if, indeed, he who is coming preaches another Yashua (Jesus) whom we did not preach, or you rece...
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for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
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and even if a commoner in speech—yet not in knowledge, but in everything we were made evident in all...
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Did I do sin—humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I freely proclaimed the good news of...
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I robbed other assemblies, having taken wages, for your ministry;
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and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for the brothers su...
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The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting will not be stopped in regard to me in the regio...
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for what reason? Because I do not love you? God (Elohim) has known!
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And what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in...
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for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Chris...
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and no wonder—for even Satan transforms himself into a messenger of light;
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it is no great thing, then, if his servants also transform themselves as servants of righteousness—w...
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Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, receive me even as a fool, that I a...
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17
That which I speak, I do not speak according to the LORD, but as in foolishness, in this the confide...
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since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:
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for you gladly bear with the fools—being wise,
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for you bear, if anyone is bringing you under bondage, if anyone devours, if anyone takes away, if a...
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I speak in reference to dishonor, how that we were weak, and in whatever anyone is bold—in foolishne...
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Are they Hebrews? I also! Are they Israelites? I also! Are they seed of Abraham? I also!
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Are they servants of Christ? As if beside myself I speak—I am more; in labors more abundantly, in st...
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24
Five times I received from Jews forty stripes except one;
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three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I have passed...
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journeys many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my own race, perils from natio...
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in laboriousness and painfulness, many times in watchings, in hunger and thirst, many times in fasti...
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apart from the things without—the crowding on me that is daily—the care of all the assemblies.
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I am not burned?
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If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness;
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the God (Elohim) and Father of our Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ—who is blessed for all ages—has known...
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to s...
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and I was let down through a window in a rope basket, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.
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