1 Corinthians 9:12 Cross References - Coverdale

¹² But yf other be partakers of this power on you, wherfore are not we rather? Neuertheles we haue not vsed this power, but suffre all thinges, lest we shulde hynder the Gospell off Christ.

⁵⁶ Then sayde he vnto them: holde me not, for the LORDE hath prospered my iourney: let me go, that I maye departe vnto my master.

⁸ and cospyred all together, to come and fight against Ierusalem, & to make an hinderaunce therin.

⁵² Wo vnto you scrybes, for ye haue receaued ye keye of knowlege. Ye are not come in youre selues, and haue forbydden them that wolde haue bene in.

³ And because he was of the same crafte, he abode with the, and wroughte. Their crafte was to make tentes.

³¹ Therfore awake, and remembre, that by the space of thre yeares I ceassed not to warne euery one off you both nighte and daye with teares. ³² And now brethren I commende you vnto God, and to ye worde of his grace, which is mightie to edifye you, and to geue you the enheritaunce amoge all them that are sanctified. ³³ I haue not desyred syluer, golde or rayment off eny off you. ³⁴ For ye youre selues knowe, that these handes haue mynistred vnto my necessities, and them that were with me.

²² This is also the cause, wherfore I haue bene oft tymes let to come vnto you.

¹¹ Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place, ¹² and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it:

¹⁴ I wryte not this to shame you, but as my deare childre I warne you. ¹⁵ For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ yet haue ye not many fathers. For I haue begotten you in Christ Iesu thorow ye Gospell?

⁷ Now therfore is there vtterly a faute amoge you, that ye go to lawe one with another. Why rather suffre ye not wronge? Why suffre ye not youre selues rather to be defrauded?

² Are not ye my worke in the LORDE? Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet am I youre Apostle: for the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the LORDE.

¹⁵ But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Nether wryte I therof, that it shulde be done so vnto me: for I had rather dye, the that eny man shulde brynge my reioysinge to naughte.

¹⁸ Wherfore the shal I be rewarded? (Namely therfore) that I preach the Gospell, and do the same frely for naughte, that I abuse not my libertye in ye Gospell.

³ Let vs geue no man occasion of euell, that oure office be not euell spoken of:

⁷ Or dyd I synne therin because I submytted my selfe, that ye mighte be exalted?For I preached vnto you the Gospell of God frely, ⁸ and robbed other cogregacions, and toke wages of the, to preach vnto you. ⁹ And whan I was present with you, and had nede, I was greuous to no man: for yt which was lackynge vnto me, the brethren which came fro Macedonia, suppleed. And in all thinges I kepte myselfe so, yt I shulde not be greuous to you, & so wyl I kepe my selfe. ¹⁰ As surely as the trueth of Christ is in me, this reioysinge shal not be taken fro me in the regions of Achaia.

¹² Neuertheles what I do and wyl do, that do I to cut awaye occasion, from the which seke occasion, that they mighte boast the selues to be like vnto vs.

²⁰ For ye suffre euen yf a man brynge you in to bondage, yf a man put you to dishonesty, yf a man take ought fro you, yf a man exalte himselfe ouer you, yf a man smyte you on the face.

¹³ For what is it, wherin ye are inferiours to the other congregacions? excepte it be yt I haue not bene greuous vnto you.Forgeue me this wroge. ¹⁴ Beholde, I am ready the thirde tyme to come vnto you, and wyl not be chargeable vnto you. For I seke not youres, but you. For ye childre ought not to gather treasure for the elders, but the elders for the children.

⁶ nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ, ⁷ but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children, ⁸ euen so had we hartely affeccion towarde you, and wolde with good wyl haue dealte vnto you, not onely the Gospell of God, but oure lyues also, because ye were deare vnto vs. ⁹ Ye remembre brethren oure laboure and trauayle. For daye and nighte wroughte we (because we wolde not be chargeable vnto eny of you) and preached the Gospell of God amonge you.

⁸ nether toke we bred of eny man for naughte but wrought wt laboure and trauayle night and daye, lest we shulde be chargeable to eny of you. ⁹ Not but that we had auctorite, but to geue oure selues for an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.