“Paul makes it clear that not only did other churches encourage him in his ministry to the Corinthians but also that they gave him significant financial support.”
Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
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8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
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6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
— 2 Corinthians 11:8 —
9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.