And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD has prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
1 Corinthians 9:12 - King James 2000 If others be partakers of this right over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this right; but endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If others share in this rightful claim upon you, do not we [have a still better and greater claim]? However, we have never exercised this right, but we endure everything rather than put a hindrance in the way [of the spread] of the good news (the Gospel) of Christ. American Standard Version (1901) If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. Common English Bible If others have these rights over you, don’t we deserve them all the more? However, we haven’t made use of this right, but we put up with everything so we don’t put any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. |
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD has prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?
Even so has the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my boasting void.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my right in the gospel.
If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them who desire occasion; that when they glory, they may be found even as we.
For you permit it, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man smites you on the face.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,