sSee 1 Cor. 14:26
Numbers 12:3
3Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.Nehemiah 5:14-19
Nehemiah’s Generosity
14Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from athe twentieth year to bthe thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, cneither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 15The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration ▼▼Compare Vulgate; Hebrew took from them with food and wine afterward
forty shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, fbecause of the fear of God. 16I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work. 17Moreover, there were gat my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. 18 hNow what was prepared at my expense ▼▼Or prepared for me
for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this jI did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people. 19 kRemember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people. 2 Corinthians 11:31
31 lThe God and Father of the Lord Jesus, mhe who is blessed forever, nknows that I am not lying.2 Corinthians 12:11
Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 oI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was pnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, qeven though I am nothing.2 Corinthians 12:19
19Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is rin the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and sall for your upbuilding, beloved.
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