Acts 20:33
Good News Translation
I have not wanted anyone's silver or gold or clothing.

New Revised Standard Version
I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

Contemporary English Version
I have never wanted anyone's money or clothes.

New American Bible
I have never wanted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as

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I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as

Numbers 16:15 Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.

1 Samuel 12:3-5 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:12,15,18 If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. . . .

2 Corinthians 7:2 Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we have overreached no man.

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.

2 Corinthians 12:14,17 Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. . . .

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily:

Context
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesians
32And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified. 33I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as 34You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and them that are with me, these hands have furnished.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:3
Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

1 Corinthians 9:4
Have not we power to eat and to drink?

1 Corinthians 9:12
If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die rather than that any man should make my glory void.

2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

3 John 1:7
Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

Acts 20:32
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