1Cor 9:18 Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:18

18: 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.

1 Corinthians 8:9

  1. But you must be careful with this freedom of yours. Do not cause a brother or sister with a weaker conscience to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:6

  1. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves?
  2. What soldier has to pay his own expenses? And have you ever heard of a farmer who harvests his crop and doesn't have the right to eat some of it? What shepherd takes care of a flock of sheep and isn't allowed to drink some of the milk?

1 Corinthians 10:33

  1. That is the plan I follow, too. I try to please everyone in everything I do. I don't just do what I like or what is best for me, but what is best for them so they may be saved.

2 Corinthians 4:5

  1. We don't go around preaching about ourselves; we preach Christ Jesus, the Lord. All we say about ourselves is that we are your servants because of what Jesus has done for us.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

  1. As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else.

1 Corinthians 7:31

  1. Those in frequent contact with the things of the world should make good use of them without becoming attached to them, for this world and all it contains will pass away.

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.

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.

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?

Romans 14:15

  1. And if another Christian is distressed by what you eat, you are not acting in love if you eat it. Don't let your eating ruin someone for whom Christ died.
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