8. I deprived the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9. And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any of you, for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10. It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? because I do not love you? God knows.