2 Corinthians 11:9 Cross References - Wesley

⁹ For the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my want; and I have in all things kept myself from being burdensom, and will keep myself.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

²⁵ Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need.

¹⁰ I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful; but ye lacked opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, to be content. ¹² I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound, every where and in every thing I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to want. ¹³ I can do all things through Christ strengthening me. ¹⁴ Nevertheless ye have done well, that ye did communicate to me in my affliction. ¹⁵ And ye know likewise, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in respect of giving and receiving but you only. ¹⁶ For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my necessities.

³ And as he was of the same trade, he abode with them and wrought, for they were tent-makers by trade.

⁴ in much patience, in afflictions,

¹ Moreover, brethren, we declare to you the grace of God, bestowed on the churches in Macedonia, ² That in a great trial of affliction, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality:

¹² For the administration of this service, doth not only supply the necessities of the saints, but likewise aboundeth by the thanksgivings of many to God:

¹³ For wherein were ye inferior to the other churches, unless that I myself was not burdensom to you. ¹⁴ Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend, and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. ¹⁶ But be it so: I did not burden you: but being crafty, I caught you with guile.

⁶ Nor sought we glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the Apostles of Christ.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

⁸ Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but wrought with labour and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any of you. ⁹ Not because we have not power; but that we might make ourselves an example to you, that ye might imitate us.

³⁷ They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented: