Acts 20:33
33I never desired anyone's silver, gold, or clothes.1Sam 12:3; 1Cor 9:12; 2Cor 7:2; 11:9; 12:172 Corinthians 12:13-14
13How were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I did not bother you for help? Forgive me for this wrong!1Cor 1:7; 9:12; 2Cor 11:7, 9 14Here I am ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things but you. Children should not have to support ▼▼Lit. to save up for
their parents, but parents their children.Acts 20:33; 1Cor 4:14-15; 10:33; 2Cor 13:1 2 Corinthians 12:16
16Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?2Cor 11:9Philippians 4:10
10The Philippians’ GiftsNow I rejoice in the Lord greatly, because once again you have shown your concern for me. Of course, you were concerned for me but you did not have an opportunity to show it. ▼▼The Gk. lacks to show it
2Cor 11:9 Philippians 4:15-16
15You Philippians also know that in the early days ▼▼Lit. in the beginning
of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church participated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except for you.2Cor 11:8-9 16Even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs not once, but twice. 1 Thessalonians 2:9
9You remember, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not become a burden to any of you while we proclaimed the gospel of God to you.Acts 20:34; 1Cor 4:12; 2Cor 11:9; 12:13-14; 2Thes 3:82 Thessalonians 3:8-9
8We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, with toil and labor we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.Acts 18:3; 20:34; 2Cor 11:9; 1Thes 2:9 9It is not as though we did not have that right, but, we wanted ▼▼The Gk. lacks we wanted
to give you an example to follow.1Cor 9:6; 1Thes 2:6; 2Thes 2:7
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