Bible Cross References
when
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or are Barnabas and I the only ones who have to work for our living?
1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldiers ever have to pay their own expenses in the army? What farmers do not eat the grapes from their own vineyard? What shepherds do not use the milk from their own sheep?
1 Corinthians 10:33
Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 11:7-9
7
I did not charge you a thing when I preached the Good News of God to you; I humbled myself in order to make you important. Was that wrong of me?
8
While I was working among you, I was paid by other churches. I was robbing them, so to speak, in order to help you.
9
And during the time I was with you I did not bother you for help when I needed money; the believers who came from Macedonia brought me everything I needed. As in the past, so in the future: I will never be a burden to you!
2 Corinthians 12:13-18
13
How were you treated any worse than the other churches, except that I did not bother you for financial help? Please forgive me for being so unfair!
14
This is now the third time that I am ready to come to visit you---and I will not make any demands on you. It is you I want, not your money. After all, children should not have to provide for their parents, but parents should provide for their children.
15
I will be glad to spend all I have, and myself as well, in order to help you. Will you love me less because I love you so much?
16
You will agree, then, that I was not a burden to you. But someone will say that I was tricky, and trapped you with lies.
17
How? Did I take advantage of you through any of the messengers I sent?
18
I begged Titus to go, and I sent the other believer with him. Would you say that Titus took advantage of you? Do not he and I act from the very same motives and behave in the same way?
1 Thessalonians 2:6
We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,
2 Thessalonians 3:8
We did not accept anyone's support without paying for it. Instead, we worked and toiled; we kept working day and night so as not to be an expense to any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
We did this, not because we do not have the right to demand our support; we did it to be an example for you to follow.
that I
1 Corinthians 7:31
those who deal in material goods, as though they were not fully occupied with them. For this world, as it is now, will not last much longer.
1 Corinthians 8:9
Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.
Romans 14:15
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!