1 Corinthians 9:15

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 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. 11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows. 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.
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
  • Phil 1:20-23 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose. 23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 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 : 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;
  • 2 Cor 12:13-18 : 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. 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? 16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception. 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you? 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps?

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  • 1 Cor 9:16-19
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    16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

    17For 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.

    18What 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.

    19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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    5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

    6For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:9-10
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    9When 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.

    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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    31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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  • 1 Cor 9:14
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  • 2 Cor 10:8-9
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    8For 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,

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  • Gal 1:10-11
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  • Phil 1:20-22
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    20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

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

    22But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

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    16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

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  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3My defense to those who examine me is this.

  • Rom 15:20
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    20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

  • Phil 1:12
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    12Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • Phil 2:30
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    30because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.