1 Corinthians 9:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from working?

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  • Acts 4:36 : 36 And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated, Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus,
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 And because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
  • Acts 13:1-2 : 1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: for working night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we did not behave disorderly among you. 8 Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but we worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 9 Not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to follow.
  • Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their district.
  • Acts 14:12 : 12 And they called Barnabas, Zeus; and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
  • Acts 15:36-37 : 36 After some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing. 37 Now Barnabas determined to take with them John, who was called Mark.
  • Acts 20:34-35 : 34 Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me. 35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.
  • Acts 11:22 : 22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem; and they sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch.

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  • 1 Cor 9:1-5
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    1Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

    2If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

    3My answer to those who examine me is this,

    4Do we not have the right to eat and drink?

    5Do we not have the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 2 Thess 3:8-12
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    8Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but we worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

    9Not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

    10For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

    11For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.

    12Now those who are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and eat their own bread.

  • 1 Cor 9:7-15
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    7Who goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

    8Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

    9For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.' Does God care for oxen?

    10Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

    11If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

    12If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

    13Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?

    14Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

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    6Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: for working night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages from them, to serve you.

    9And when I was with you and in need, I was a burden to no one: for what I lacked the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things I have kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

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    10They only desired that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.

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    9And let us not grow weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

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    9For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

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    12And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.

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    20Avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

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    13For I do not mean that others should be relieved and you burdened;

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6But I speak this by permission, and not as a command.

  • 2 Cor 6:1
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    1We then, as workers together with Him, urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain.

  • 1 Thess 3:1
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    1Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it best to be left alone at Athens;

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

  • 1 Thess 4:11
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    11And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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    13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

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    11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

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    29To this end I also labor, striving according to his working, which works mightily in me.

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    4Earnestly pleading with us for the privilege of participating in the service to the saints.

  • Acts 20:34
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    34Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me.

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    16that you also be in submission to such, and to everyone who helps and labors with us.

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    18For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. And, The laborer is worthy of his wages.

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    1Concerning the service to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you:

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    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

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    8(For He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked mightily in me toward the Gentiles:)

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    10Nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs: for the worker is worthy of his food.

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    2Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not right that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.