1 Corinthians 9:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For in that I preach the Gospell, I neade not boost my selfe, for I must nedes do it. And wo vnto me, yff I preach not the Gospell.

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  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am detter both to the Grekes, and to the vngrekes, to the wyse and to the vnwyse.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 The LORDE sayde vnto him: Go thy waye, for this man is a chosen vessell vnto me, that he maye beare my name before the Heythen, and before kynges, and before the children of Israel.
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 Iesus sayde vnto him: Who so putteth his hade to the plowe, and loketh backe, is not mete for the kingdome of God.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 We can not chose, but speake that we haue sene & herde.
  • Acts 9:6 : 6 And he both tremblinge and astonnyed, sayde: LORDE what wilt thou that I shal do? The LORDE sayde vnto him: Aryse, and go into the cite, there shal it be tolde the what thou shalt do.
  • Acts 26:16-20 : 16 But ryse vp, and stonde vpon thy fete, for therfore haue I appeared vnto the, that I mighte ordeyne the to be a mynister and witnesse of it that thou hast sene, and that I wyll yet cause to appeare vnto the. 17 And I wil delyuer the from the people, and from the Heythen, amonge who I wil now sende the, 18 to ope their eyes, that they maye turne from the darknesse vnto the lighte, and from the power of ye deuell vnto God, that they maye receaue forgeuenesse of synnes, and the enheritaunce with them that are sanctified by faith in me. 19 Wherfore (O kynge Agrippa) I was not faithlesse vnto ye heauely vision, 20 but shewed it first vnto them at Damascon, and at Ierusale, and in all the coastes of Iewry, and to the Heythen, that they shulde do pennaunce, and turne vnto God, and to do the righte workes of pennaunce.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I sayde: O wo is me. For I was astonished: that I (which am a man of vnclene lippes, and dwell amonge people yt hath vnclene lippes also:) Shulde se ye Kynge and LORDE of hoostes with myne eyes.
  • Jer 1:17 : 17 And therfore gyrde vp thy loynes, arise, and tell them all, that I geue the in comaundement. Feare them not, I will not haue the to be afrayed of the.
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 O LORDE, thou makest me weake, but thou refreshest me, & makest me stronge agayne. All the daye longe am I despysed, and laughed to scorne of euery man:
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 When a lyon roareth, who will not be afrayed? Seynge then that the LORDE God himself speaketh, who will not prophecy?
  • Amos 7:15 : 15 the LORDE toke me, & sayde vnto me: Go thy waye, and prophecy vnto my people of Israel.
  • Rom 15:17 : 17 Therfore maye I boost myselfe thorow Iesu Christ, that I medle with thinges perteyninge vnto God.
  • Col 4:17 : 17 And saye to Archippus: Take hede to the office which thou hast receaued in the LORDE, that thou fulfyll it.
  • Rom 4:2 : 2 This we saye: Yf Abraham were made righteous thorow workes, then hath he wherin to reioyse, but not before God.

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    17Yf I do it with a good wyll, I shall haue my rewarde: but yff I do it agaynst my wyll, yet is the office commytted vnto me.

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    14Euen thus also hath ye LORDE ordeyned, that they which preach the Gospell, shulde lyue of ye Gospell.

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    22To the weake, am I become as weake, to wynne the weake. I am become of all fasshions vnto euery man, to saue some at ye leest.

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    18For I durst not speake ought, excepte Christ had wroughte the same by me, to make the Heythen obediet thorow worde and dede,

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