Bible Cross References
I have
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but bear all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 4:12
And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
Acts 8:3
But Saul was doing injury to the church, going in from house to house, and dragging away both men and women, and committing them to prison.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands rendered service to my needs, and those who were with me.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you,
neither
2 Corinthians 11:9-12
9
and when I was present with you, and in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. And in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.
10
As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia.
11
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!
12
But what I am doing, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire an opportunity, that in what they boast they may be found just as we [are].
2 Corinthians 12:13-18
13
For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
14
Now for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15
And I gladly will spend and be expended for your souls; although the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
16
But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I took you with guile!
17
Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
18
I urged Titus, and I sent with him the brother. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did [we] not [walk] in the same Spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?
for
Matthew 18:6
"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone be hanged on his neck, and he be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Acts 20:24
But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.
Philippians 1:20-23
20
according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be ashamed, but with utmost boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
21
For to me, to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.
22
But if I am to live on in the flesh, this to me will mean fruit from my labor; and what I shall choose I do not know.
23
For I am hard pressed by the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.