1Cor 9:15 Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:15

15: 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.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

  1. 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.

Acts 18:3

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

1 Corinthians 9:12

  1. 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.

2 Corinthians 11:9

  1. 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.
  2. As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, I will never stop boasting about this all over Greece.
  3. Why? Because I don't love you? God knows I do.
  4. 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.

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.

Acts 20:34

  1. 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.

Matthew 18:6

  1. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose faith, it would be better for that person to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around the neck.

1 Corinthians 4:12

  1. 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.

Acts 20:24

  1. But my life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus--the work of telling others the Good News about God's wonderful kindness and love.

Philippians 1:20

  1. For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that causes me shame, but that I will always be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past, and that my life will always honor Christ, whether I live or I die.
  2. For to me, living is for Christ, and dying is even better.
  3. Yet if I live, that means fruitful service for Christ. I really don't know which is better.
  4. I'm torn between two desires: Sometimes I want to live, and sometimes I long to go and be with Christ. That would be far better for me,

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.
  3. I will gladly spend myself and all I have for your spiritual good, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me.
  4. Some of you admit I was not a burden to you. But they still think I was sneaky and took advantage of you by trickery.
  5. But how? Did any of the men I sent to you take advantage of you?

Acts 8:3

  1. Saul was going everywhere to devastate the church. He went from house to house, dragging out both men and women to throw them into jail.
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