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1 Corinthians 9:12

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

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Alas for you Students of the Law! You have taken away the key of the door of Knowledge. You have not gone in yourselves and you have hindered those who try to go in."

And, since their trade was the same as his, he stayed and worked with them--their trade was tent-making.

That is why I have so often been prevented from coming to you.

Love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.

To begin with, it is undoubtedly a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?

So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the Good News should get their living from the Good News.

I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die-Nobody shall make my boast a vain one!

If I tell the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it!

What is my reward, then? To present the Good News free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.

If I am not an Apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal that stamps me as an Apostle in union with the Lord.

What I am doing now I shall continue to do, that I may cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do.

You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!

When I went to the district round Troas to tell the Good News of the Christ, even though there was an opening for serving the Master,

Never do we put an obstacle in any one's way, that no fault may be found with our ministry.




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