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- 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you; 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 12:13-18 : 13 For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [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 {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} 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 {G5100} 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 9:14-174 verses85%
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, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
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.
- 2 Cor 11:7-104 verses80%
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.
- 1 Cor 9:11-122 verses77%
- 1 Cor 9:21-233 verses75%
21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.
22To the weak I became {G5613} weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
- Phil 1:16-183 verses74%
16the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;
17but the other {G3303} proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein {G1722} I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
- Rom 15:16-205 verses73%
16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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,
19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
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;
- 1 Cor 9:6-83 verses73%
6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
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 {G3361} after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
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