8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
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But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. …
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
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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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