Verse 6

Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.

Referenced Verses

  • John 5:41 : 41 I receiue not the prayse of men.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone?
  • 1 Cor 9:1-2 : 1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord? 2 If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 For nowe preach I mans doctrine, or Gods? or go I about to please men? for if I should yet please men, I were not the seruant of Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day & night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.
  • Phlm 1:8-9 : 8 Wherefore, though I bee very bolde in Christ to commaunde thee that which is conuenient, 9 Yet for loues sake I rather beseeche thee, though I be as I am, euen Paul aged, and euen nowe a prisoner for Iesus Christ.
  • 1 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 For nowe are wee aliue, if ye stand fast in the Lorde. 9 For what thankes can wee recompense to God againe for you, for all the ioy wherewith we reioyce for your sakes before our God,
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 The Elders that rule well, let them be had in double honour, specially they which labour in the worde and doctrine,
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let vs not be desirous of vaine glorie, prouoking one another, enuying one another.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.
  • 1 Cor 9:4-6 : 4 Haue we not power to eat & to drinke? 5 Or haue we not power to lead about a wife being a sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, haue not we power not to worke?
  • 1 Cor 9:12-18 : 12 If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ. 13 Doe ye not knowe, that they which minister about the holy things, eate of the things of the Temple? and they which waite at the altar, are partakers with the altar? 14 So also hath the Lorde ordeined, that they which preach ye Gospel, should liue of the Gospel. 15 But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine. 16 For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of: for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel. 17 For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me. 18 What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.
  • 1 Cor 11:9 : 9 For the man was not created for the womans sake: but the woman for the mans sake.
  • 1 Cor 12:13-15 : 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we bee Iewes, or Grecians, whether we be bonde, or free, and haue bene all made to drinke into one Spirit. 14 For the body also is not one member, but many. 15 If the foote would say, 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 preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lorde, and our selues your seruaunts for Iesus sake.
  • 2 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 Nowe I Paul my selfe beseech you by the meekenes, and gentlenes of Christ, which when I am present among you am base, but am bolde toward you being absent: 2 And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 10:10-11 : 10 For the letters, sayeth hee, are sore and strong, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speache is of no value. 11 Let such one thinke this, that such as wee are in woorde by letters, when we are absent, such wil we be also in deede, when we are present.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.
  • John 7:18 : 18 Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie: but hee that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnes is in him.
  • John 12:43 : 43 For they loued the prayse of men, more then the prayse of God.
  • Esth 1:4 : 4 That he might shewe the riches & glorie of his kingdome, and the honour of his great maiestie many dayes, euen an hundreth and foure score dayes.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 And Haman tolde them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the King had promoted him, & how that he had set him aboue the princes and seruants of the King.
  • Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eate much hony: so to search their owne glory is not glory.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 (4:27) And the King spake and sayde, Is not this great Babel, that I haue built for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?