Verse 12

if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
  • 2 Cor 11:12 : 12 and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for `it is' good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you? 8 other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration; 9 and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep. 10 The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;
  • 1 Thess 2:6-9 : 6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles. 7 But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children, 8 so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us, 9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; 9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
  • Gen 24:56 : 56 And he saith unto them, `Do not delay me, seeing Jehovah hath prospered my way; send me away, and I go to my lord;'
  • Neh 4:8 : 8 and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
  • Luke 11:52 : 52 `Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;
  • Acts 20:31-34 : 31 `Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one; 32 and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified. 33 `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet; 34 and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;
  • Rom 15:22 : 22 Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, 12 and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish, 15 for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;
  • 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?
  • 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 12:13-14 : 13 for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice! 14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,