1 Corinthians 9:16

World English Bible (2000)

For 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.

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  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
  • Acts 9:6 : 6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
  • Acts 26:16-20 : 16 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' 19 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
  • Jer 1:17 : 17 "You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
  • Amos 7:15 : 15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
  • Rom 15:17 : 17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
  • Col 4:17 : 17 Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."
  • Rom 4:2 : 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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  • 1 Cor 9:17-19
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:14-15
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    14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

    15But 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:22-23
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    22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

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

  • Rom 15:16-20
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    16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    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,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

    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.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

  • 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 11:7
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    7Or 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?

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    15So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

    16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

  • 2 Cor 11:30
    73%

    30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

  • Gal 1:9-11
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    9As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

    10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

    11But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

    18What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:2
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    2If 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.

  • Rom 9:1-2
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    1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

    2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

  • 1 Cor 15:1
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    1Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

  • 2 Tim 1:11
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    11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • Gal 5:11
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    11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For 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.

  • Rom 10:15
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    15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"

  • Gal 1:16
    69%

    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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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,

  • Phil 2:16
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    16holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • 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;

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But 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 9:4
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    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.