7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. …
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles—that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles , 2 Cor. 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so . He might have spoken very positively. The apostleship, as an office, was equal in all the apostles; but the apostles, like other Christians,…
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