Verse 12

If others be partakers of this power wherfore are not we rather? Neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all thinges, lest we shoulde hinder the Gospel of Christ.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What is my reward then? Uerily that when I preache the Gospell, I make the Gospell of Christ free, that I misuse not myne aucthoritie in the Gospell.
  • 2 Cor 11:12 : 12 But what I do, that wyll I do, to cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs, in yt wherin they gloried.
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.
  • 2 Cor 11:7-9 : 7 Dyd I sinne because I submitted my selfe, that ye myght be exalted, & because I preached to you the Gospell of God freely? 8 I robbed other Churches, takyng wages of them, to do you seruice. 9 And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe. 10 The trueth of Christe is in me, that this reioycyng shall not be shut vp agaynst me in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 Let vs geue none occasion of euyll in any thyng, that the ministerie be not blamed:
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For ye suffer, yf a man bryng you into bondage, yf a man deuoure, yf a man take, yf a man exalt hym selfe, yf a man smite you on the face.
  • 1 Thess 2:6-9 : 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others: 7 When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren, 8 So, beyng tenderly affected towarde you, our good wyll was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospell of God only: but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs. 9 For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 Neither toke we breade of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and sweat nyght and daye, because we woulde not be chargeable to any of you. 9 Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.
  • Gen 24:56 : 56 He sayde vnto them: hynder me not, beholde, the Lorde hath prospered my iourney, sende me away therefore, that I may go to my maister.
  • Neh 4:8 : 8 And conspired all together to come and fight against Hierusalem, and to make an hinderaunce therin.
  • Luke 11:52 : 52 Wo vnto you lawyers: for ye haue taken away the keye of knowledge, ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbad.
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought (for their craft was to make tentes)
  • Acts 20:31-34 : 31 Therfore watch, and remember that by the space of three yeres I ceassed not to warne euery one night and day with teares. 32 And nowe brethren I commende you to God, and to the worde of his grace, which is able to buylde further, and to geue you an inheritaunce among all the which are sanctified. 33 I haue desired no mans syluer, golde, or vesture. 34 Yea, ye your selues knowe, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
  • Rom 15:22 : 22 For this cause I haue ben oft let, that I coulde not come vnto you.
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place. 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it.
  • 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I write not these thynges to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you. 15 For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: For in Christe Iesu I haue begotten you through the Gospell.
  • 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 Nowe therefore there is vtterly a fault among you, because ye go to lawe one with another: Why rather suffer ye not wrong? why rather suffer ye not harme?
  • 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doubtlesse am I vnto you: For the seale of myne Apostleship are ye in the Lorde.
  • 2 Cor 12:13-14 : 13 For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong. 14 Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren.