9And 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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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.
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: …
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. …
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
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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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