1 Corinthians 9:16

New Century Version

Telling the Good News does not give me any reason for bragging. Telling the Good News is my duty—something I must do. And how terrible it will be for me if I do not tell the Good News.

Cross References

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure, and I live among people who are not pure, but I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Jeremiah 1:17

“Jeremiah, get ready. Stand up and tell them everything I command you to say. Don’t be afraid of the people, or I will give you good reason to be afraid of them.

Jeremiah 20:7

Lord, you tricked me, and I was fooled. You are stronger than I am, so you won. I have become a joke; everyone makes fun of me all day long.

Jeremiah 20:9

Sometimes I say to myself, “I will forget about the Lord. I will not speak anymore in his name.” But then his message becomes like a burning fire inside me, deep within my bones. I get tired of trying to hold it inside of me, and finally, I cannot hold it in.

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared! Who wouldn’t be afraid? The Lord God has spoken. Who will not prophesy?

Amos 7:15

But the Lord took me away from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

Matthew 25:16

The servant who got five bags went quickly to invest the money and earned five more bags.

Luke 9:62

Jesus said, “Anyone who begins to plow a field but keeps looking back is of no use in the kingdom of God.”

Acts 4:20

We cannot keep quiet. We must speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! I have chosen Saul for an important work. He must tell about me to those who are not Jews, to kings, and to the people of Israel.

Acts 9:6

Get up now and go into the city. Someone there will tell you what you must do.”

Romans 1:14

I have a duty to all people—Greeks and those who are not Greeks, the wise and the foolish.

Romans 15:17

So I am proud of what I have done for God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 4:2

If Abraham was made right by the things he did, he had a reason to brag. But this is not God’s view,

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Through the Good News I became your father in Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have the right to get something from you, surely we have this right, too. But we do not use it. No, we put up with everything ourselves so that we will not keep anyone from believing the Good News of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who tell the Good News should get their living from this work.

2 Corinthians 2:12

When I came to Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord gave me a good opportunity there.

Colossians 4:17

Tell Archippus, “Be sure to finish the work the Lord gave you.”

1 Samuel 12:23

I will surely not stop praying for you, because that would be sinning against the Lord. I will teach you what is good and right.