1 Corinthians 9:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

What is my reward then? Uerily that when I preache the Gospell, I make the Gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not myne aucthoritie in the Gospell.

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  • 1 Cor 7:31 : 31 And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: For the fashion of this worlde goeth away.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But take heede lest by any meanes this libertie of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.
  • 1 Cor 9:6-7 : 6 Either only I and Barnabas haue not power this to do? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his owne cost? Who planteth a vineyarde, and eateth not of the fruite therof? Or who feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke?
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 Euen as I please all men in all thynges, not seking myne owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preache not our selues, but Christe Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruauntes for Iesus sake.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely? 8 I robbed other Churches, takyng wages of them, to do you seruice. 9 And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe.
  • 2 Cor 12:13-18 : 13 For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong. 14 Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren. 15 I wyll very gladly bestowe, & wylbe bestowed for your sakes, though the more aboundauntly I loue you, the lesse I am loued agayne. 16 But be it, that I was not chargeable vnto you: Neuerthelesse, when I was craftie, I caught you with guile. 17 Dyd I pyll you by any of them who I sent vnto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with hym I sent a brother: Dyd Titus defraude you of any thyng? Haue we not walked in the same spirite? not in the same steppes?
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others:
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 Neither toke we breade of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and sweat nyght and daye, because we woulde not be chargeable to any of you. 9 Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But yf thy brother be greeued with thy meat, nowe walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not hym with thy meat, for whom Christe dyed.

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  • 1 Cor 9:14-17
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    14Euen so hath the Lord ordayned, that they which preache the Gospell, shoulde lyue of the Gospell.

    15But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.

    16For if I preache the Gospell, I haue nothyng to reioyce of: for necessitie is layde vpon me. But wo is vnto me if I preache not the Gospell.

    17For if I do it with a good wil, I haue a reward: but if I do it against my wil, the dispensatio is committed vnto me.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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    7Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely?

    8I robbed other Churches, takyng wages of them, to do you seruice.

    9And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe.

    10The trueth of Christe is in me, that this reioycyng shall not be shut vp agaynst me in the regions of Achaia.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19For though I be free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruaunt vnto all men, that I might win the mo.

  • 1 Cor 9:11-12
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    11If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?

    12If others be partakers of this power wherfore are not we rather? Neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all thinges, lest we shoulde hinder the Gospel of Christ.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10Do I nowe perswade men, or God? Other do I seke to please men? For yf I shoulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christe.

    11I certifie you brethren, that the Gospell which was preached of me, was not after man.

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21To them that are without lawe, become as though I were without lawe, (when I was not without law as parteyning to the lawe of God, but in the lawe of Christe) to winne them that are without lawe.

    22To the weake became I as weake, that I might winne the weake. I am made all thinges to all men, that I might at the least way saue some.

    23And this I do for the Gospels sake, that I might haue my part therof.

  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16The one preache Christe of strife, not sincerely, supposyng to adde more affliction to my bondes:

    17But the others of loue, knowing that I am set to the defence of the Gospell.

    18What then? So that Christe be preached any maner of way, whether it be by pretence, or by trueth, I ioy therein, and wyll ioy.

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christe our Lord: Are ye not my worke in the Lorde?

  • Rom 15:16-20
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    16That I should be the minister of Iesus Christe, to the gentiles, and shoulde minister the Gospell of God, that the offeryng of the gentiles might be acceptable, and sanctified by the holy ghost.

    17I haue therefore whereof I may reioyce through Christ Iesus, in those thynges which parteyne to God.

    18For I dare not speake of any of those thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient with worde and deede,

    19In myghtie signes and wonders, by the power of the spirite of God: so that from Hierusalem, & the coastes rounde about, vnto Illyricum, I haue fullye preached the Gospell of Christe.

    20So haue I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospell, not where Christe was named, lest I shoulde haue buylt vpon an other mans foundation.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God.

  • 1 Cor 9:6-8
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    6Either only I and Barnabas haue not power this to do?

    7Who goeth a warfare any time at his owne cost? Who planteth a vineyarde, and eateth not of the fruite therof? Or who feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke?

    8Say I these thinges after the maner of men? or saith not the law the same also?

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christe sent me not to baptize, but to preache the Gospell: not with wisedome of wordes, lest ye crosse of Christ shoulde be made of none effect.

  • 2 Cor 12:16-17
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    16But be it, that I was not chargeable vnto you: Neuerthelesse, when I was craftie, I caught you with guile.

    17Dyd I pyll you by any of them who I sent vnto you?

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I tame my body, and bryng it into subiection, lest by any meanes, that when I haue preached to other, I my selfe shoulde be a castaway.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16And that I shall preache the Gospell, in those regions which are beyonde you: and not to glorie of those thynges, which by another mans measure are prepared alredy.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Truly, not that other be set at ease, & ye brought into combraunce:

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3Myne aunswere to them that aske me, is this,

  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8Neither toke we breade of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and sweat nyght and daye, because we woulde not be chargeable to any of you.

    9Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10But by the grace of God, I am that I am: And his grace which is in me, was not in vayne: But I laboured more aboundauntly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    15So that as much as in me is, I am redy to preache the Gospell to you that are at Rome also.

    16For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ, because it is the power of God vnto saluation to all that beleue, to the Iewe first, and also to the Greke.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33Euen as I please all men in all thynges, not seking myne owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20For this we eschewe, that any man shoulde rebuke vs in this plenteous distribution that is ministred by vs:

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    1Of the ministryng to the saintes, it is but superfluous for me to write vnto you:

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    30For, if I take my part with thankes, why am I euyll spoken of, for that wherfore I geue thankes?

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    14But without thy mynde woulde I do nothyng, that thy benefite shoulde not be as it were of necessitie, but willingly.

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    13Which by the experiment of this ministration, prayse God for the obedience of your consentyng to the Gospell of Christe, and for your singlenesse in distributyng to them, and to all men:

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that wyll I do, to cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs, in yt wherin they gloried.