2 Corinthians 11:8

WEB

⁸I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

KJV

⁸I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

BSB

⁸I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.

FBV

⁸I robbed as it were other churches, taking pay from them so I could work for you.

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Extra References

Philippians 4:14-16

¹⁴However you did well that you shared in my affliction. ¹⁵You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. ¹⁶For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Philippians 4:18

¹⁸But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

2 Corinthians 11:9

⁹When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.