Bible Cross References
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2 Corinthians 11:20
You tolerate anyone who orders you around or takes advantage of you or traps you or looks down on you or slaps you in the face.
are not
1 Corinthians 9:2
Even if others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do! Because of your life in union with the Lord you yourselves are proof of the fact that I am an apostle.
1 Corinthians 4:14
I write this to you, not because I want to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as my own dear children.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you have ten thousand guardians in your Christian life, you have only one father. For in your life in union with Christ Jesus I have become your father by bringing the Good News to you.
Nevertheless
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I haven't made use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this now in order to claim such rights for myself. I would rather die first! Nobody is going to turn my rightful boast into empty words!
1 Corinthians 9:18
What pay do I get, then? It is the privilege of preaching the Good News without charging for it, without claiming my rights in my work for the gospel.
Acts 20:31-34
31
Watch, then, and remember that with many tears, day and night, I taught every one of you for three years.
32
"And now I commend you to the care of God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you the blessings God has for all his people.
33
I have not wanted anyone's silver or gold or clothing.
34
You yourselves know that I have worked with these hands of mine to provide everything that my companions and I have needed.
2 Corinthians 11:7-10
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!
10
By Christ's truth in me, I promise that this boast of mine will not be silenced anywhere in all of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 12:13
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!
2 Corinthians 12:14
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.
1 Thessalonians 2:6-9
6
We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,
7
even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you. But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.
8
Because of our love for you we were ready to share with you not only the Good News from God but even our own lives. You were so dear to us!
9
Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.
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.
but
1 Corinthians 4:11
To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;
1 Corinthians 4:12
we wear ourselves out with hard work. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
1 Corinthians 6:7
The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?
hinder
Genesis 24:56
But he said, "Don't make us stay. The LORD has made my journey a success; let me go back to my master."
Nehemiah 4:8
So they all plotted together to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion,
Luke 11:52
"How terrible for you teachers of the Law! You have kept the key that opens the door to the house of knowledge; you yourselves will not go in, and you stop those who are trying to go in!"
Romans 15:22
And so I have been prevented many times from coming to you.
2 Corinthians 11:12
I will go on doing what I am doing now, in order to keep those other "apostles" from having any reason for boasting and saying that they work in the same way that we do.