Acts 20:33

American Standard Version (1901)

I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 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] .
  • 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 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.
  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What 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 12:14-17 : 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?
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
  • Num 16:15 : 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto Jehovah, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
  • 1 Sam 12:3-5 : 3 Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. 4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand. 5 And he said unto them, Jehovah is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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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] .

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    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.

  • Matt 10:9-10
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    9Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;

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

  • 1 Thess 2:5-6
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    5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

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

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:

    21for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  • Acts 20:32
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    32And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

  • Phil 4:17
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    17Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    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.

  • 1 Tim 6:8
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    8but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.

  • Heb 13:5
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    5Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

  • Luke 22:35
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    35And he said unto them, When I sent you forth without purse, and wallet, and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing.

  • Gen 14:23
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    23that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

  • Acts 20:27
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    27For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.

  • Acts 20:19-20
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    19serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

    20how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

  • Titus 2:10
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    10not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

  • Luke 9:3
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    3And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    69%

    3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

  • 1 Cor 10:24
    69%

    24Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor's [good] .

  • 2 Cor 12:17
    69%

    17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

  • 1 Cor 9:18
    69%

    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.

  • Phil 2:20
    69%

    20For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.

  • Rom 15:17
    69%

    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

  • 1 Cor 10:32-33
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    68%

    32Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

    33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.

  • Gal 4:12
    68%

    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

  • Ezek 18:16
    68%

    16neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

  • Heb 10:34
    68%

    34For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.

  • 1 Tim 6:11
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    11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

  • Ezek 18:7
    68%

    7and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

  • Luke 12:33
    68%

    33Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    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.

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

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

  • 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;

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • Acts 4:34
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    34For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.

  • Phil 4:11
    68%

    11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.