2 Corinthians 11:8
Good News Translation
While I was working among you, I was paid by other churches. I was robbing them, so to speak, in order to help you.

New Revised Standard Version
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.

Contemporary English Version
I robbed other churches by taking money from them to serve you.

New American Bible
I plundered other churches by accepting from them in order to minister to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.

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I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.

2 Corinthians 11:9 And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.

Philippians 4:14-16 Nevertheless, you have done well in communicating to my tribulation. . . .

Context
Paul and the False Apostles
7Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely? 8I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry. 9And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:12
And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.

1 Corinthians 9:6
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?

Philippians 4:15
And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only.

Philippians 4:18
But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

2 Corinthians 11:7
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