1 Corinthians 9:6

American Standard Version (1901)

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 4:36 : 36 And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of exhortation), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
  • 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.
  • Acts 13:1-2 : 1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was [there], prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
  • 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 3:7-9 : 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 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: 9 not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
  • Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.
  • Acts 14:12 : 12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker.
  • Acts 15:36-37 : 36 And after some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, [and see] how they fare. 37 And Barnabas was minded to take with them John also, who was called Mark.
  • Acts 20:34-35 : 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
  • Acts 11:22 : 22 And the report concerning them came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas as far as Antioch:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 9:1-5
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    83%

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

    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

    3My defence to them that examine me is this.

    4Have we no right to eat and to drink?

    5Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 2 Thess 3:8-12
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    81%

    8neither 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:

    9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

    10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

    11For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

    12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

  • 1 Cor 9:7-15
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    7What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

    8Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

    9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,

    10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.

    11If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

    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.

    13Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?

    14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

    15But 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    73%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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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?

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

    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] .

  • Gal 2:10
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    10only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • Gal 6:9
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    9And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

  • 1 Cor 3:9
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    9For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  • 2 Cor 6:1
    69%

    1And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

  • 1 Thess 3:1
    69%

    1Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone;

  • 2 Tim 2:6
    69%

    6The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

  • 1 Thess 4:11
    69%

    11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    69%

    13For 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.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    69%

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

  • Col 1:29
    68%

    29whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

  • 2 Cor 8:4
    68%

    4beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

  • Acts 20:34
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    34Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

  • 1 Cor 16:16
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    16that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth in the work and laboreth.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
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    18For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
    68%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    68%

    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:

  • Gal 2:8
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    8(for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles);

  • Matt 10:10
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    10no wallet for [your] journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

  • Acts 6:2
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    2And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.

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