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2 Kings 5:16
But he said, "As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take something from him."
2 Corinthians 11:8-12
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I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to do you service.
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And when I was present with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no man, for that which I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.
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As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Why so? Because I love you not? God knoweth!
12
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found even as we.
2 Corinthians 12:11-15
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I have become a fool in glorying. Ye have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I inferior to the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
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Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.
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For in what are ye inferior to other churches, unless it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!
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Behold, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
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Acts 16:40
And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia. And when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.
Acts 17:1-5
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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
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And Paul, as was his custom, went in unto them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
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expounding and alleging that it was necessary for Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ."
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And some of them believed, and joined themselves with Paul and Silas, as did a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few.
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But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, engaged certain wicked fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a crowd and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.