1 Corinthians 9:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² If others share in this rightful claim upon you, do not we [have a still better and greater claim]? However, we have never exercised this right, but we endure everything rather than put a hindrance in the way [of the spread] of the good news (the Gospel) of Christ.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Common English Bible

¹² If others have these rights over you, don’t we deserve them all the more? However, we haven’t made use of this right, but we put up with everything so we don’t put any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² If others are sharers in this authority over you, why are we not more entitled? And yet we have not used this authority. Instead, we bear all things, lest we give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:12 Cross References

Genesis 24:56

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

Nehemiah 4:8

and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

Luke 11:52

Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Acts 18:3

and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Romans 15:22

Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:

1 Corinthians 13:7

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1 Corinthians 6:7

Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

1 Corinthians 9:14

Even so did the Lord ordain that they which proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case: for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:2

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

2 Corinthians 2:12

Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

2 Corinthians 6:3

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;