1 Corinthians 9:18 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁸ What is my reward, then? To present the Good News free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.

¹⁵ If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

³¹ And those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.

⁹ But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread? ⁷ Does any one ever serve as a soldier at his own expense? Does any one plant a vineyard and not eat its produce? Or does any one look after a herd and not drink the milk?

³³ For I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but that of men in general, that they may be saved.

⁵ (For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.)

⁷ Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted--I mean because I told you God's Good News without payment. ⁸ I robbed other churches by taking pay from them, so that I might serve you! ⁹ And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our Brothers, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way.

¹³ In what respect, I ask, were you treated worse than the other Churches, unless it was that, for my part, I refused to become a burden to you? Forgive me the wrong I thus did you! ¹⁴ Remember, this is the third time that I have made every preparation to come to see you, and I shall refuse to be a burden to you; I want, not your money, but you. It is not the duty of children to put by for their parents, but of parents to put by for their children. ¹⁵ For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved? ¹⁶ You will admit that I was not a burden to you but you say that I was "crafty" and caught you "by a trick"! ¹⁷ Do you assert that I took advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you? ¹⁸ I urged Titus to go, and I sent our Brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did not we live in the same Spirit, and tread in the same footsteps?

⁶ Nor did we seek to win honour from men, whether from you or from others, although, as Apostles of Christ, we might have burdened you with our support.

⁸ Nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it. Night and day, laboring and toiling, we used to work at our trades, so as not to be a burden upon any of you. ⁹ This was not because we had not a right to receive support, but our object was to give you a pattern for you to copy.