1 Corinthians 9:12

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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.

Cross References

Genesis 24:56

"Do not be willing," he said, "to delay me, for the Lord has directed my way. Release me, so that I may journey to my lord."

Nehemiah 4:8

And they all gathered together, so that they might go forth and fight against Jerusalem, and so that they might prepare ambushes.

Luke 11:52

Woe to you, experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves do not enter, and those who were entering, you would have prohibited."

Acts 18:3

And because he was of the same trade, he lodged with them and was working. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

Romans 15:22

Because of this also, I was greatly hindered in coming to you, and I have been prevented until the present time.

1 Corinthians 13:7

Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.

1 Corinthians 6:7

Now there is certainly an offense among you, beyond everything else, when you have court cases against one another. Should you not accept injury instead? Should you not endure being cheated instead?

1 Corinthians 9:14

So, too, has the Lord ordained that those who announce the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:15

Yet I have used none of these things. And I have not written so that these things may be done for me. For it is better for me to die, rather than to let anyone empty out my glory.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the Gospel, it is not glory for me. For an obligation has been laid upon me. And woe to me, if I do not preach the Gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:18

And what, then, would be my reward? So, when preaching the Gospel, I should give the Gospel without taking, so that I may not misuse my authority in the Gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:2

And if I am not an Apostle to others, yet still I am to you. For you are the seal of my Apostleship in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But what I am doing, I will continue to do, so that I may take away an opportunity from those who desire an opportunity by which they may glory, so as to be considered to be like us.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.

2 Corinthians 2:12

And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord,

2 Corinthians 6:3

May we never give offense to anyone, so that our ministry may not be disparaged.