7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? |
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. |
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. |
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. |
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. |
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. |