Verse 8
2 Corinthians 11:8
King James Version
8
I robbed other churches, taking wages
of them, to do you service.
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
Would to God (Elohim) ye could bear with me a little in
my folly: and indeed bear with me.
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2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may pr...
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3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds shoul...
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4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Yashua (Jesus), whom we have not preached, or
if ye receive...
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5
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
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6
But though
I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among...
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7
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to y...
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8
I robbed other churches, taking wages
of them, to do you service.
9
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking...
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10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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11
Wherefore? because I love you not? God (Elohim) knoweth.
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12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that whe...
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13
For such
are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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14
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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15
Therefore
it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousnes...
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16
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast my...
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17
That which I speak, I speak
it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of b...
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18
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
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19
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye
yourselves are wise.
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20
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour
you, if a man take
of you, if a man...
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21
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I sp...
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22
Are they Hebrews? so
am I. Are they Israelites? so
am
I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so
am I.
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23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I
am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes ab...
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24
Of the Jews five times received I forty
stripes save one.
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25
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I h...
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26
In journeyings often,
in perils of waters,
in perils of robbers,
in perils by
mine own
countrymen,...
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27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold a...
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28
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
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29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
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30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
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31
The God (Elohim) and Father of our Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knowet...
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32
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desi...
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33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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