1 Corinthians 9:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted  with a commission.

Cross References

Galatians 2:7

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised,  just as Peter  was for the circumcised,

1 Corinthians 3:8

Now he who plants and he who waters are one,  and each will receive his own reward according to his own labour.

Colossians 1:25

I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

1 Corinthians 4:1

A person should think of us in this way: as servants  of Christ and managers  of the mysteries of God.

Matthew 10:41

Anyone who welcomes a prophet   because he is a prophet   will receive a prophet’s reward. And anyone who welcomes a righteous person because he’s righteous   will receive a righteous person’s reward.

1 Chronicles 28:9

‘As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind,  for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought.  If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you for ever.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted  with the gospel,  so we speak, not to please people, but rather God,  who examines our hearts.

1 Corinthians 3:14

If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

Ezekiel 3:14

The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord’s hand was on me powerfully.

Jeremiah 20:9

I say, ‘I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.’ But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Isaiah 6:8

Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking: Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me.

Nehemiah 11:2

The people blessed all the men who volunteered  to live in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 29:9

Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to give, for they had given to the Lord wholeheartedly.  King David also rejoiced greatly.

1 Chronicles 29:5

the gold for the gold work and the silver for the silver, for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the Lord today? ’

Philemon 1:14

But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach   #– #and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Luke 12:42

The Lord said, ‘Who then is the faithful and sensible manager   his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food   at the proper time?

Matthew 24:25

Take note: I have told you in advance.

Malachi 1:10

‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,  so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!  I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept  no offering from your hands.

Jonah 1:3

Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish  from the Lord’s presence.  He went down  to Joppa  and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence.

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your own hand.

John 4:36

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,   so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my rights in the gospel.