2 Corinthians 11:7

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.” They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,