1 Corinthians 9:18

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:31 : 31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
  • 1 Cor 9:6-7 : 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 10:33 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
  • 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.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

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  • 1 Cor 9:14-17
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    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.

    16 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.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-10
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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?

    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.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 1 Cor 9:11-12
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    11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

    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.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 For 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 9:21-23
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    21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

    22 To 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.

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

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

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

    18 What 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

  • Rom 15:16-20
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    16 that 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.

    17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18 For 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,

    19 in 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;

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

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 9:6-8
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    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?

    8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

  • Acts 20:24
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For 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.

  • 2 Cor 12:16-17
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    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?

  • 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 9:27
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    27 but 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 10:16
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    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 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

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

  • 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 15:10
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    10 But 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.

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

    16 For 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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

  • 1 Cor 10:30
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    30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14 But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

  • 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.