1 Corinthians 9:12 Cross References - BBE

¹² If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

⁵⁶ And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.

⁸ And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

⁵² A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

³ And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

³¹ So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping. ³² And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints. ³³ I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing. ³⁴ You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

²² For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:

¹¹ Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place; ¹² And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

¹⁴ I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right. ¹⁵ For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

⁷ More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

² If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

¹⁵ But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

¹⁸ What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

³ Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

⁷ Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward? ⁸ I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant; ⁹ And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so. ¹⁰ As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

¹² But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

²⁰ You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

¹³ For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong. ¹⁴ This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

⁶ Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones: ⁸ Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us. ⁹ For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

⁸ And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you: ⁹ Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.