2 Corinthians 11:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

2 Corinthians 11:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philippians 4:18
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.
Philippians 4:14-16
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. …
2 Corinthians 11:9
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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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, di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. I robbed--that is, took from them in order to spare you more than what was their fair share of contribution to my maintenance, for example, the Philippian Church (Php 4:15, 16). wages--“subsidy.” to do you service--Greek, “with a view to ministration to you”; compare “supplied” (Greek, “in addition”), 2Co 11:9, implying, he brought with him from the Macedonians, supplies towards his maintenance…