1 Thessalonians 2:6 Cross References - WPNT

⁶ or to seek glory from men (whether from you or from others) —as apostles of Christ we could have been ‘heavy’,

⁴¹ “I do not accept glory from people.

⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive glory from men and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

¹⁸ Someone who speaks on his own is seeking his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

⁴³ for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

¹ Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, because you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

⁴ Do we have no right to eat and drink? ⁵ Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to forego working?

¹² If others have a share in this right from you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but we put up with everything so as not to cause any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ. ¹³ Don’t you know that those who minister the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar have a share in the altar? ¹⁴ So also the Lord has instructed those who proclaim the Gospel to live from the Gospel. ¹⁵ Now I have not used any of these rights, nor have I written these things that it should be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void ¹⁶ —I cannot boast because I preach the Gospel, because I am compelled to do so; indeed, woe is me if I don’t preach it! ¹⁷ (If I do this of my own volition, I have a reward; but if otherwise, I have been entrusted with a commission.) ¹⁸ So what is my reward? That when I evangelize I may present the Gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to use my rights in the Gospel.

⁹ and neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man

¹³ For we also were all baptized into one body by one Spirit—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and were all given to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For in fact the body is not one part but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” it would not therefore cease to be of the body.

⁵ Now we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;

¹ Now I, Paul, am myself appealing to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ (I who am ‘humble when present’ among you, but ‘bold when absent’ toward you). ² Yes, I beg you, that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that I will ‘dare’ to visit upon some who think that we are walking in a fleshly manner.

¹⁰ Because some say, “His letters are ‘heavy’ and forceful, but his physical presence is weak, and his speech can be disdained.” ¹¹ Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters while absent is just what we will be in action when present.

¹⁰ This is why I write these things while absent, so that when present I may not have to deal harshly, according to the authority that the Lord gave me, for building up and not for tearing down.

¹⁰ Am I just now appealing to men, or to God? Or am I trying to please men? You see, if I were still pleasing men I would not be a slave of Christ.

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

⁹ Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and exertion, because working night and day, so as not to burden any of you, we proclaimed the Gospel of God to you.

⁸ for now we live, if you are standing firm in the Lord. ⁹ With what thankfulness can we repay God for you, for all the joy with which we are rejoicing in the presence of our God because of you;

¹⁷ Let the elders who lead well be counted worthy of a double honorarium, especially those who labor in word and teaching.

⁸ Now then, though I have all boldness in Christ to order you (sg) to do what is right, ⁹ I—being none other than Paul the old man and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ—would rather appeal to you, for love’s sake.