1 Thessalonians 2:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
  • 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.
  • Phlm 1:8-9 : 8 Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. 9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.
  • Esth 1:4 : 4 When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty for many days, even a hundred and eighty days.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glory to search out one's own glory.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
  • John 7:18 : 18 He who speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
  • John 12:43 : 43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
  • 1 Cor 9:4-6 : 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do 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? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from working?
  • 1 Cor 9:12-18 : 12 If 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. 13 Do 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? 14 Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel. 15 But 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. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. 18 What 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.
  • 1 Cor 11:9 : 9 Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
  • 1 Cor 12:13-15 : 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • 2 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 Now I, Paul, myself plead with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 10:10-11 : 10 For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such a person consider this, that as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

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