1Cor.9.18

1 Corinthians 9:18

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What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

The Rights of an Apostle

Cross References

John 4:36

KJV Jesus

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

The Disciples Return and Marvel

Acts 18:3

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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

Paul Ministers in Corinth

1 Corinthians 3:8

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Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

God’s Fellow Workers

1 Corinthians 7:31

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And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

The Unmarried and Widowed

1 Corinthians 9:12

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If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:15

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But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:17

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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

The Rights of an Apostle

2 Corinthians 11:7

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Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Paul and the False Apostles

2 Corinthians 12:13

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For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

2 Corinthians 12:14

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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your’s, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.