the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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2 Corinthians 11:8
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I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you;
I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to minister to you.
Sure, I accepted some pay from some other outfits, but that was just so I could get to y'all and help out.
I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;
I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
I robbed other churches by taking pay from them to minister to you.
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
I spoiled other churches, taking wages of them, to serve you: and when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man.
Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service.
I robbed other Churches, taking wages of them to doe you seruice.
I stripped other assemblies, receiving wages for the serving of you.
and robbed other cogregacions, and toke wages of the, to preach vnto you.
by taking wages of other churches, I may have injured them, to do you service.
I robbed other churches by accepting [more than their share of] financial support for my ministry to you.
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
I robbed other congregacions and toke wages of the to do you service with all.
I robbed other churches, taking wages to serve you;
I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service.
other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;
I accepted pay from other churches, taking their money so I could serve you.
I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!
I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.
I robbed other churches by taking money from them to serve you.
I robbed other congregations by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.
I deprived other churches, taking supplies from them, in order to minister to you.
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
And other churches have I despoiled, receiving of them expenses, for your service.
8 And I robbed other churches, and I took pay [fn] for ministering to you.
I "robbed" other churches by accepting their contributions so I could serve you at no cost.
I did take money from other churches. I used it while I worked with you so you would not have to pay me.
I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
Other assemblies, I despoiled, receiving supplies that I might minister, unto you;
I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them for the ministry to you.
I robbed other Churches, takyng wages of them, to do you seruice.
I accepted pay from other churches. I took their money so that I could serve you.
I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you;
While I was working among you, I was paid by other churches. I was robbing them, so to speak, in order to help you.
Y made nakid othere chirchis, and Y took sowde to youre seruyce.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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2 Corinthians 11:9, Philippians 4:14-16
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 5:26 - Is it a time 1 Corinthians 13:7 - endureth 2 Corinthians 12:13 - I myself Philippians 4:15 - in the
Cross-References
To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob And scatter them in Israel.
When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I robbed other churches,.... Meaning the churches of Macedonia; not that what he had of them was by force and rapine, or by plundering of them, and spoiling of their substance, and living upon them against their wills, as soldiers use a conquered people, though the allusion is to such a custom; for what he had of theirs was freely communicated to him; as appears from the following verse: but because these churches from whom he received were poor, and the Corinthians whom he served were rich, he calls it a robbing of the former, though there was no injury in the case, for it was voluntary, because it was expended for the service of the latter:
taking wages of them to do you service; or "for your ministry"; either to supply their poor, or rather to support the ministry of the Gospel among them. The apostle continues the metaphor, taken from soldiers, to whom wages are due for their warfare; as are also to the ministers of the Gospel, the good soldiers of Jesus Christ; since no man goes a warfare at his own charges and expense but is for by those in whose service he is: and therefore, though the apostle did not think it advisable to ask for, and insist upon wages from them at that time, for his service among them, yet he took it of others in lieu of it; and this he mentions, partly to show that wages were due to him for his ministry, and partly to observe to them who they were beholden to for the support of the Gospel at first among them; as also to stir them up to be serviceable to other churches, as others had been to them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I robbed other churches - The churches of Macedonia and elsewhere, which had ministered to his needs. Probably he refers especially to the church at Philippi (see Philippians 4:15-16), which seems to have done more than almost any other church for his support. By the use of the word “robbed” here Paul does not mean that he had obtained anything from them in a violent or unlawful manner, or anything which they did not give voluntarily. The word (ἐσύλησα esulēsa) means properly, “I spoiled, plundered, robbed,” but the idea of Paul here is, that he, as it were, robbed them, because he did not render an equivalent for what they gave him. They supported him when he was laboring for another people. A conqueror who plunders a country gives no equivalent for what he takes. In this sense only could Paul say that he had plundered the church at Philippi. His general principle was, that “the laborer was worthy of his hire,” and that a man was to receive his support from the people for whom he labored (see 1 Corinthians 9:7-14), but this rule he had not observed in this case.
Taking wages of them - Receiving a support from them. They bore my expenses.
To do you service - That I might labor among you without being supposed to be striving to obtain your property, and that I might not be compelled to labor with my own hands, and thus to prevent my preaching the gospel as I could otherwise do. The supply from other churches rendered it unnecessary in a great measure that his time should be taken off from the ministry in order to obtain a support.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Corinthians 11:8. I robbed other Churches — This part of the sentence is explained by the latter, taking wages to do you service. The word οψωνιον signifies the pay of money and provisions given daily to a Roman soldier. As if he had said: I received food and raiment, the bare necessaries of life, from other Churches while labouring for your salvation. Will you esteem this a crime?
