1 Corinthians 9:15 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁵ But as for me I have not made use of any of these privileges nor have I written these things that they should be a rule for me. For it were better for me to die than that any should deprive me of what is my boast.

⁶ But whoever shall occasion the stumbling of one of such little ones who believe in me, better were it for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were whelmed in the depth of the sea.

³ Saul was making havock of the congregation. Entering into houses and dragging out men and women, he committed them to prison.

³ and being of the same trade, lived and wrought with them; for they were tentmakers.

²⁴ But I make no account of any of these, nor is this life of mine so much my concern as to finish with joy my course; even the office which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the favour of God.

³⁴ Even you yourselves know that these very hands have ministered to my wants, and to the supply of them who were with me.

¹² working with our own hands. Being reviled we give good words; being persecuted we suffer patiently;

¹² If others exercise this power over you, may not we rather? But we have not made use of this power; but endure all things that we may not give any obstruction to the glad tidings of the Christ.

⁹ Even when present with you, and in want, I was burthensome to no one; for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my want, so that I kept myself from being in any wise burthensome to you, and I will continue to do so. ¹⁰ It is a truth of Christ in me that this boasting shall not be stopped against me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knoweth ¹² that what I do and will do is that I may cut off the advantage of those who are wishing for an advantage; that in what they boast, they may be found acting as we do:

¹³ For what instance is there of your being inferior to other congregations, unless it be this; that I have not been burthensome to you? Forgive me this injury. ¹⁴ Behold I am in preparation to come to you a third time, and I will not be burthensome to you. For I seek not your possessions, but yourselves. For children are not bound to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And as for me, I will, with the greatest pleasure, spend and be spent for your sakes, though the more I love you, the less I be beloved. ¹⁶ Now be it so that I did not burthen you, but being crafty I took you in by artifice. ¹⁷ Did I take an undue advantage of you by any of them whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I entreated Titus to go, and with him I sent the brother. Did Titus take any undue advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not in the same steps?

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall in no wise be ashamed; but that in the most open manner, as always so now, Christ shall be magnified in my body, either by life or by death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But whether the living in flesh is for me a fruit of labour, and what I should chuse, I do not know. ²³ For I am strained between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is by far the best;

⁹ For you, brethren, remember our labour and our toil: for working day and night that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we proclaimed to you the glad tidings of God.

⁸ nor eat any man's bread for nothing; but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you;