1 Corinthians 9:12 Cross References - MLV

¹² If others are partaking of this authority over you, do we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we are forbearing all things, in order that we should not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

⁵⁶ And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since Jehovah has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.

⁸ and all of them together conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

⁵² Woe to you professors of the law! Because you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you forbid those who were entering.

³ also because he was of the same craft. He was remaining and working beside them, for they were tent makers, by the craft.

³¹ Hence watch, remembering that for three years I ceased not from admonishing each one of you^\'b0 every day with tears. ³² And hereafter I consign you brethren to God, and to the word of his favor, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been made holy. ³³ I coveted no one’s silver or gold or garment. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands attended to my needs, and to those being with me.

²² Hence also, I was being hindered these many times from coming to you,

¹¹ We are both hungry and thirsty, till the current hour, and are naked and are battered and are homeless; ¹² and we are laboring, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we are speaking well of them; being persecuted, we are tolerating it;

¹⁴ I am not writing these things to be embarrassing you, but I am admonishing you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For even if you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, but you do not have many fathers, for I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news.

⁷ Therefore, it is indeed already a literal loss to you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

¹⁵ But I used none of these things, and I do not write these things in order that it may become so with me; for it would be good for me rather to die, than in order that anyone should make my boasting void.

¹⁸ Therefore what is my reward? In order that, in proclaiming the good-news of the Christ without cost, I might place the good-news before you, and that I should not make full use of my authority in the good-news.

³ giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in order that the service from us might not be blamed.

⁷ Or did I practice some sin in humbling myself in order that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed freely the good-news of God to you? ⁸ I robbed other congregations, taking compensations from them for your service. ⁹ And being present with you and having come-short, I did not encumber anyone; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, replenished my lack of things and I kept and will be keeping myself not burdensome to you in everything. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be sealed up in me in the districts of Achaia.

¹² But what I am doing, I will also continue to be doing it in order that I may cut off the starting-point from those who wish for a starting-point in order that they may be found just-as we in what they are boasting.

²⁰ For you tolerate it, if anyone is enslaving you, if anyone is devouring you, if anyone is taking from you, if anyone is lifting himself up, if anyone is whipping you on the face.

¹³ For in what is it that you were lesser, beyond the rest of the congregations, except in that I myself did not encumber you? Forgive me this unrighteousness!
¹⁴ Behold, I hold ready to come to you the third-time, and I will not be encumbering you; for I am not seeking the things of you, but you; for the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, while being able to be a burden to you as apostles of Christ. ⁷ But we became mild in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children. ⁸ So having kindly-feelings of you, we were delighted to have given to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.
⁹ For brethren, you remember our labor and hardship. For we were working night and day, that we might not burden any of you while we preached to you the good-news of God.

⁸ nor did we eat bread freely from anyone, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, that we might not burden anyone of you; ⁹ not because we did not have the authority, but in order that we might give ourselves as an example to you, that you might imitate us.