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1 Corinthians 9 18
What 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.
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2 Corinthians 11 12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, 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 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.
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2 Corinthians 11 7-2 Corinthians 11 10
Or 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?I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Luke 11:52
Woe 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.”
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1 Corinthians 6 7
Therefore 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?
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Nehemiah 4:8
and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
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Acts 18:3
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
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2 Corinthians 6 3
We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
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Romans 15:22
Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
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Genesis 24:56
He said to them,“ Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has 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 you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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2 Thessalonians 3 8-2 Thessalonians 3 9
neither 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,not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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Acts 20:31-34
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
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1 Corinthians 4 14-1 Corinthians 4 15
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
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1 Thessalonians 2 6-1 Thessalonians 2 9
nor seeking glory from men( neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
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2 Corinthians 11 20
For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
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2 Corinthians 12 13-2 Corinthians 12 14
For 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.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 your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.