2Cor 11:7-12 | PNT | STEP | Have I committed an offence in absing myself , etc. He had at Corinth supported himself in part by his own labor ( ). See PNT . Yet these false apostles seemed to have charged that he did not dare to ask for the support which was due an apostle.

2 Corinthians 11:7-12

Have I committed an offence in absing myself, etc. He had at Corinth supported himself in part by his own labor (Ac 18:3).

See PNT 1Co 9:13. Yet these false apostles seemed to have charged that he did not dare to ask for the support which was due an apostle. I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service. Other churches sustained him when he came to Corinth. This seems to have been the usual custom. Philippi aided him more than once while preaching in Thessalonica (Php 4:16). The churches of Macedonia aided him at Corinth. When I was present with you, and wanted. When his supplies fell short, he work at tent-making (Ac 18:3) until Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia with supplies (Ac 18:5). These were the "brethren which came from Macedonia". No man shall stop me of this boasting. As he has done, so he will do. It shall be his boast that his gospel was freely preached in Achaia. Wherefore? because I love you not? Why this course in Achaia? Not because he does not love them. That I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion. One reason that he did this was to give no excuse to these opposers to call on the church to maintain them. He would force them by his example to be found even as we, that is, to maintain themselves.