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1 Corinthians 9 18
What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
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2 Corinthians 11 12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
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1 Corinthians 9 15
But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
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2 Corinthians 11 7-2 Corinthians 11 10
Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
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Luke 11:52
Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
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1 Corinthians 6 7
Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
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Nehemiah 4:8
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling- place;and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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Acts 18:3
and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.
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2 Corinthians 6 3
giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
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Romans 15:22
Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:
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Genesis 24:56
And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing Jehovah hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
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1 Corinthians 9 2
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
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2 Thessalonians 3 8-2 Thessalonians 3 9
neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
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Acts 20:31-34
Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.I coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
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1 Corinthians 4 14-1 Corinthians 4 15
I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.
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1 Thessalonians 2 6-1 Thessalonians 2 9
nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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2 Corinthians 11 20
For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
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2 Corinthians 12 13-2 Corinthians 12 14
For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.