1 Corinthians 9:18 Cross References - MKJV

¹⁸ What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

¹⁵ But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

³¹ And they who use this world are as not abusing it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

⁹ But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority whether not to work? ⁷ Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?

³³ even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

⁵ For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

⁷ Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge? ⁸ I stripped other churches, taking wages for the serving of you. ⁹ And being present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone. For the brothers from Macedonia made up completely my need. And in every way I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will keep myself.

¹³ For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong. ¹⁴ Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved the less. ¹⁶ But let it be so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, I caught you with bait. ¹⁷ By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him? ¹⁸ I begged Titus and sent with him the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

⁶ Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.

⁸ neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you ⁹ (not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).