1 Corinthians 9:12 Cross References - Lamsa

¹² If others have this authority over you, have we not the more right? Nevertheless we have not used this authority; but we have endured all things so that we would not hinder the gospel of Christ.

⁵² Woe to you, scribes! for you have taken away the keys of knowledge; you did not enter, and those who were entering you hindered.

³ And because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them: for they were saddle makers by trade.

³¹ Therefore watch, and remember, that for three years, night and day, I did not cease to teach every one of you with tears. ³² And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the saints. ³³ I have never coveted silver, or gold, or apparel. ³⁴ Indeed you yourselves know, that my own hands have provided for my needs and for those who have been with me.

²² This is the reason why I have been many times prevented from coming to you.

¹¹ Even to this very hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and mistreated and have no permanent home; ¹² And labor, working with our own hands: being cursed we bless, being persecuted, we endure it;

¹⁴ I do not write these things to make you feel ashamed, but to advise you as beloved children. ¹⁵ For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you will have not many fathers: for in Jesus Christ I have begotten you through the gospel.

⁷ Now therefore you are already at fault because you go to court one with another. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather let yourselves be defrauded?

² If I am not an apostle to others, yet to you I am: for you are the seal of my apostleship.

¹⁵ But I have used none of these privileges: neither have I written these things that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should declare my pride in my teaching worthless.

¹⁸ What then is my wage? This is it. When I preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do it without thought of recompense, and I have not abused the power given to me in the gospel.

³ Give no occasion for offence to any one in anything, so that there be no blemish in our ministry:

⁷ Probably I have acted foolishly in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely. ⁸ I deprived other churches, taking supplies from them, in order to minister to you. ⁹ And when I came to you and was in need, I did not burden any of you for my wants were supplied by the brethren who came from Mac-e-doÆni-a : I have taken care of myself in every way and I will so continue to keep myself that I will not be a burden to you. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of A-chaÆia.

¹² But what I do, I will continue to do, so as to give no occasion to those who seek an occasion; and that, in whatever they boast, they may not be found equal to us;

²⁰ For you endure the man who dominates you, and the man who lives at your expense, and the man who takes from you, and the man who exalts himself over you, and the man who smites you on the face.

¹³ For what do you lack that other churches have, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this ôfaultö! ¹⁴ Behold, this is the third time I am prepared to come to you; and I will not burden you; for I seek nothing from you, but yourselves: for children are not under obligation to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

⁶ And we have not sought support from men, neither from you, nor from others, when we could have been burdensome on you for our maintenance, as the apostles of Christ should be. ⁷ But we were meek when we were among you, and like a foster mother who loves her children: ⁸ Likewise, we are affectionately desirous to give you, not only the gospel of God, but even our lives, because you were dear to us. ⁹ For you remember, brethren, that we labored hard, working night and day, with our hands, so that we would not burden you.

⁸ Neither did we eat bread for nothing from any of you, but worked with hard labor and toiled night and day so that we might not be a burden to any of you: ⁹ Not because we did not have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you to follow us.