1 Corinthians 9:12

World English Bible (2000)

If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

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  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
  • 2 Cor 11:12 : 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge? 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
  • 1 Thess 2:6-9 : 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you; 9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
  • Gen 24:56 : 56 He said to them, "Don't hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
  • Neh 4:8 : 8 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
  • Luke 11:52 : 52 Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered."
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
  • Acts 20:31-34 : 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. 32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing. 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
  • Rom 15:22 : 22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
  • 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
  • 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:13-14 : 13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

    9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 1 Cor 9:10-11
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    10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

    11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

  • 1 Cor 9:4-7
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    4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

    5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

    6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

    7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • 1 Thess 2:4-6
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    4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

    5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

    6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-8
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    7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

    8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

  • 1 Cor 9:13-15
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    13 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

    14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

  • Gal 2:5
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    5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

  • 2 Cor 10:13-16
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    13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

    14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

    15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

    16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Cor 4:8
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    8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

  • 2 Cor 8:4
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    4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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

  • 2 Cor 1:8
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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • 2 Cor 12:17
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    17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

  • 2 Cor 11:9
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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

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    12 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.