1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have a claim to support from the Corinthians, Paul has even more—yet he refused to use this right, enduring all things so as not to hinder the gospel of Christ. He sacrifices his rights for the gospel's advance.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Cor 9:18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
• 1 Cor 9:15But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
• 2 Cor 11:12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
• 1 Th 2:6–9nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:7–10Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
• 1 Cor 9:2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 6:3We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
• Acts 18:3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
• Rom 15:22Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
• 1 Cor 6:7Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
• Gen 24:56He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• 2 Th 3:8–9neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
• Luke 11:52Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
• Neh 4:8and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
• 1 Cor 4:11–12Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
• 2 Cor 11:20For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
• Acts 20:31–34Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
• 2 Cor 12:13–14For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

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