When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 11:9 in context
2 Corinthians 11:6–12
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But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
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Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
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I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
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When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
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As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
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But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
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