Financial Independence and Exposure of False Apostles

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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?

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I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

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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.

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As the truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

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

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For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers, masquerading as Messiah’s emissaries.

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And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

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It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

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