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1 Corinthians 9:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

If others have the right to do this, we have an even greater right. But we haven't used this right of ours. We are willing to put up with anything to keep from causing trouble for the message about Christ.

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I plan to go on doing just what I have always done. Then those people won't be able to brag about doing the same things we are doing.

What pay am I given? It is the chance to preach the good news free of charge and not to use the privileges that are mine because I am a preacher.

But I have never used these privileges of mine, and I am not writing this because I want to start now. I would rather die than have someone rob me of the right to take pride in this.

Others may think that I am not an apostle, but you are proof that I am an apostle to you.

In fact, you let people make slaves of you and cheat you and steal from you. Why, you even let them strut around and slap you in the face.

We don't want anyone to find fault with our work, and so we try hard not to cause problems.

When one of you takes another to court, all of you lose. It would be better to let yourselves be cheated and robbed.

My work has always kept me from coming to see you.

and found out they were tent makers. Paul was also a tent maker, so he stayed with them, and they worked together.

You teachers of the Law of Moses are really in for trouble! You carry the keys to the door of knowledge about God. But you never go in, and you keep others from going in.

and decided to stir up trouble, and to fight against the people of Jerusalem.

But he said, “Don't make me stay any longer. The Lord has already helped me find a wife for my master's son. Now let us return.”

In the same way, the Lord wants everyone who preaches the good news to make a living from preaching this message.

I don't have any reason to brag about preaching the good news. Preaching is something God told me to do, and if I don't do it, I am doomed.

Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting.

When I went to Troas to preach the good news about Christ, I found that the Lord had already prepared the way.




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