2 Corinthians 12:13 Cross References - Riverside

¹³ What is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the churches except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

⁶ Or am I only, and Barnabas, without the right not to do manual labor?

¹² If others share this right over you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right. No, we endure all things in order not to cause any hindrance to the good news of Christ.

¹⁵ But I have used none of these rights and I am not writing this in order that it may be done in my case. For it would be better for me to die — No one shall make my boast an empty one! ¹⁶ For although I tell the good news I have nothing to boast of. For a necessity is laid upon me. Alas for me if I do not tell the good news! ¹⁷ If I do it voluntarily I have a reward, but if reluctantly, I have been charged with a responsibility. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That in telling the good news I make the good news free, and do not take full advantage of my rights in the good news.

⁷ Did I commit a sin when I humbled myself that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the good news of God without pay? ⁸ I robbed other churches by taking wages for serving you, ⁹ and when I was with you and in need I was not a burden to any one, for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In every way I kept myself from being a burden to you, and shall keep myself so.

¹⁴ Now this third time I am ready to come to you, and I shall not be a burden to you. For I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up money for the parents, but the parents for the children.