2 Corinthians 11:7 Cross References - Murdock

⁷ Did I indeed commit an offence, by humbling myself that ye might be exalted? and by proclaiming the gospel of God to you gratis?

¹ And when Paul departed from Athens, he went to Corinth. ² And he found there a man, a Jew, whose name was Aquila, who was from the region of Pontus, and had just then arrived from the country of Italy, he and Priscilla his wife, because Claudius Caesar had commanded that all Jews should depart from Rome. And he went to them ³ and, because he was of a their trade, he took lodgings with them, and worked with them; for by their trade they were tent-makers.

³⁴ And ye yourselves, know, that these hands ministered to my wants, and to them that were with me.

¹⁰ We are fools, on account of Messiah; but ye are wise in Messiah! We are feeble; but ye are strong! Ye are lauded, we are contemned. ¹¹ Unto this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no permanent home: ¹² and we toil, working with our own hands: they defame us, and we bless: they persecute us, and we endure it:

⁶ Or I only, and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear labor?

¹² And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah.

¹⁴ Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel. ¹⁵ But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying. ¹⁶ For while I preach, I have no ground of glorying; because necessity is laid upon me, and woe to me, if I preach not. ¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, there is a reward for me: but if involuntarily, a stewardship is intrusted to me. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? It is, that when I preach, I make the announcement of the Messiah without cost, and use not the prerogative given me in the gospel.

¹ Now I, Paul, beseech you, by the mildness and gentleness of the Messiah, although I am mild towards you when present, but bold towards you when absent!

¹³ For in what fell ye short of the other churches; except in this, that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this fault.

⁹ For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any one of you.

⁸ Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.