American Standard Version
"Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? "
— 2 Corinthians 11:7, American Standard Version
“Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?”
“Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?”
“Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?”
“Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?”
“Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?”
“Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?”
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him.
For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things.
Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;
and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.