1 Corinthians 9:15

American Standard Version (1901)

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

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  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] . 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
  • Phil 1:20-23 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. 23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:
  • 2 Cor 12:13-18 : 13 For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? 16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you? 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?

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  • 1 Cor 9:16-19
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    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

    17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

    19For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses.

    6For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I 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 glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • 1 Cor 15:31
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    31I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

  • 2 Cor 12:10-11
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    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 1 Cor 9:14
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    14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

    9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
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    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

    14but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

  • Acts 20:33
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    33I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

    11For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

  • Phil 1:20-22
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    20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

    21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

    22But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

    17That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3My defence to them that examine me is this.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

  • Phil 1:12
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    12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • Phil 2:30
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    30because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.