^{8 Ref} I robbed other churches, taking wages `of them' that I might minister unto you;

^{9 Ref} 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'.

^{10 Ref} As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

^{11 Ref} Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

^{12 Ref} But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.