1Cor 9:12 Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12

12: If you support others who preach to you, shouldn't we have an even greater right to be supported? Yet we have never used this right. We would rather put up with anything than put an obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18

  1. What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction I get from preaching the Good News without expense to anyone, never demanding my rights as a preacher.

2 Corinthians 11:12

  1. But I will continue doing this to cut the ground out from under the feet of those who boast that their work is just like ours.

1 Corinthians 9:15

  1. Yet I have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I would like to start now. In fact, I would rather die than lose my distinction of preaching without charge.

2 Corinthians 11:7

  1. Did I do wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God's Good News to you without expecting anything in return?
  2. I "robbed" other churches by accepting their contributions so I could serve you at no cost.
  3. And when I was with you and didn't have enough to live on, I did not ask you to help me. For the brothers who came from Macedonia brought me another gift. I have never yet asked you for any support, and I never will.
  4. As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, I will never stop boasting about this all over Greece.

2 Corinthians 6:3

  1. We try to live in such a way that no one will be hindered from finding the Lord by the way we act, and so no one can find fault with our ministry.

Luke 11:52

  1. "How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering."

1 Corinthians 9:2

  1. Even if others think I am not an apostle, I certainly am to you, for you are living proof that I am the Lord's apostle.

Acts 20:31

  1. Watch out! Remember the three years I was with you--my constant watch and care over you night and day, and my many tears for you.
  2. "And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace--his message that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself.
  3. "I have never coveted anyone's money or fine clothing.
  4. You know that these hands of mine have worked to pay my own way, and I have even supplied the needs of those who were with me.

Genesis 24:56

  1. But he said, "Don't hinder my return. The LORD has made my mission successful, and I want to report back to my master."

1 Corinthians 4:14

  1. I am not writing these things to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
  2. For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

  1. As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else.
  2. As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but we were as gentle among you as a mother feeding and caring for her own children.
  3. We loved you so much that we gave you not only God's Good News but our own lives, too.
  4. Don't you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that our expenses would not be a burden to anyone there as we preached God's Good News among you.

2 Corinthians 11:20

  1. You put up with it when they make you their slaves, take everything you have, take advantage of you, put on airs, and slap you in the face.

Romans 15:22

  1. In fact, my visit to you has been delayed so long because I have been preaching in these places.

1 Corinthians 4:11

  1. To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, without enough clothes to keep us warm. We have endured many beatings, and we have no homes of our own.
  2. We have worked wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

  1. We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
  2. It wasn't that we didn't have the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to give you an example to follow.

Acts 18:3

  1. Paul lived and worked with them, for they were tentmakers just as he was.

1 Corinthians 6:7

  1. To have such lawsuits at all is a real defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?

Nehemiah 4:8

  1. They all made plans to come and fight against Jerusalem and to bring about confusion there.

2 Corinthians 12:13

  1. The only thing I didn't do, which I do in the other churches, was to become a burden to you. Please forgive me for this wrong!
  2. Now I am coming to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don't want what you have; I want you. And anyway, little children don't pay for their parents' food. It's the other way around; parents supply food for their children.
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