1 Corinthians 9:15

King James Version 1611 (Original)

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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  • Acts 18:3 : 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
  • Phil 1:20-23 : 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
  • 2 Cor 12:13-18 : 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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 very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

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  • 1 Cor 9:16-19
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    16For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

    17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

    18What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

    19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

    6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have 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 boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 1 Cor 15:31
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    31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 1 Cor 9:14
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    14Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

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    13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

    14But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

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    7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • Acts 20:33
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    33I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

    11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

  • Phil 2:16
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    16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

  • Phil 1:20-22
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    20According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

    21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

    22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

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    16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

    17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

    18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

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  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

  • Rom 15:20
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    20Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

  • Phil 1:12
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    12But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • Phil 2:30
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    30Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.