1 Thessalonians 2:6 Cross References - Darby

⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ`s apostles;

⁴ when he shewed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the splendid magnificence of his grandeur many days, a hundred and eighty days.

¹¹ And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is [itself] a weight.

³⁰ the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

⁴¹ I do not receive glory from men,

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which [comes] from God alone?

¹⁸ He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

⁴³ for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

¹ Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not *ye* my work in [the] Lord? ² If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord.

⁴ Have we not a right to eat and to drink? ⁵ have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? ⁶ Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

¹² If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ. ¹³ Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar? ¹⁴ So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings. ¹⁵ But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast. ¹⁶ For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings. ¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration. ¹⁸ What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.

⁹ For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

¹³ For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit. ¹⁴ For also the body is not one member but many. ¹⁵ If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

⁵ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus` sake.

¹ But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you; ² but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

¹⁰ because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught. ¹¹ Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.

¹⁰ On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.

¹⁰ For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ`s bondman.

²⁶ Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹³ For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

⁸ because now we live if *ye* stand firm in [the] Lord. ⁹ For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on account of you before our God,

¹⁷ Let the elders who take the lead [among the saints] well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

⁸ Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting, ⁹ for love`s sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.