1 Corinthians 9:16

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[But] I do not have anything to boast about if I preach the good news because I am compelled to do it. For it would be too bad for me if I did not preach the good news.

Cross References

Matthew 25:16

The one with the five talents soon invested the money in business transactions which netted him five more.

Luke 9:62

But Jesus said to him, “Nobody who begins plowing [a field] and then looks back [i.e., in regret for beginning such an arduous task] is suited for [serving in] the kingdom of God.”

Acts 4:20

we cannot help but speak about the things we have seen and heard.”

Acts 9:15

But the Lord replied to him, “Go on your way, for Saul is someone I have especially chosen to carry my name to the [unconverted] Gentiles, kings and the Israelites.

Acts 9:6

but get up, and enter the city [of Damascus] and [there] you will be told what you must do.”

Romans 1:14

I have a debt to pay [i.e., an obligation to preach] to Greeks and heathens; to the educated and to the ignorant.

Romans 15:17

Therefore, as I have fellowship with Christ Jesus, I am proud of my service to God.

Romans 4:2

For if Abraham had been made right with God by doing good deeds he would have had something to boast about, but not in God’s presence.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For although you have ten thousand guardians [Note: This word means someone who transported a child to his teacher] in [the fellowship of] Christ, you do not have many [spiritual] fathers. For I [spiritually] conceived you people through [preaching to you] the good news [about Christ]. [Note: Paul here refers to his work in establishing the church at Corinth].

1 Corinthians 9:12

If other people have the right to receive a share of what you have, should we not have even more [right to it]? Yet we did not make use of this right, but instead we put up with whatever we had to so we would not become a hindrance to [the spread of] the good news [about Christ].

1 Corinthians 9:14

Even so the Lord directed that those who proclaim the good news [about Christ] should get their living from [preaching] that good news.

2 Corinthians 2:12

Now when I came to Troas [See Acts 16:8], in order to preach the good news about Christ, and when a door [of opportunity] was opened to me in [the service of] the Lord [there],

Colossians 4:17

And tell Archippus [Note: He may have been the preacher at Colosse or Laodicia. See Philemon 1:1-2]; “See to it that you fulfill your ministry [there], which you have received in [the service of] the Lord.”