But he said to them, “Don’t delay me, since Adonai has made my way successful. Send me off so that I can go to my master.”
1 Corinthians 9:12 - Tree of Life Version If others have a share in this claim over you, shouldn’t we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we put up with all things so that we cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah. 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. |
But he said to them, “Don’t delay me, since Adonai has made my way successful. Send me off so that I can go to my master.”
When I looked things over, I rose up and said to the nobles, the rulers and the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
“Woe to you, Torah lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter, and you stood in the way of those entering.”
and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and began working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things.
Therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
So also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the Good News to get their living from the Good News.
But I have used none of these things, and I am not writing these things so it will happen this way in my case—for I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason to boast.
For if I proclaim the Good News, I have no reason to boast—for pressure is put on me and woe to me if I don’t proclaim the Good News!
What then is my reward? That when I preach, I may present the Good News free of charge, not making use of my right in the Good News.
If to others I am not an emissary, at least I am to you—for you are the seal of my office of emissary in the Lord.
But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off the opportunity from those who want an opportunity in what they boast about to also be regarded just as we are.
For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone puts on airs, if someone slaps you on the face.
Now when I arrived in Troas for the Good News of Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
We give no cause for offense in anything, so that our ministry may not be blamed.