Bible Cross References
from the twentieth
Nehemiah 2:1
And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before.
Nehemiah 13:6
But during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I had come to the king. Then after certain days I obtained leave from the king,
I and my
1 Corinthians 9:4-15
4
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
5
Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority to not work?
7
Who ever serves military duty at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?
8
Do I say these things only as a man? Or does not the Law say the same also?
9
For it is written in the Law of Moses, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. Is it oxen God is concerned about?
10
Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11
If we have sown spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
12
If others are partakers of this authority over you, should we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but endure all things so that we might not hinder the gospel of Christ.
13
Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the altar?
14
Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
15
But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so with me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my exulting void.
1 Corinthians 9:18-15
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat anyone's bread free of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,
2 Thessalonians 3:9
not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should imitate us.
the bread
Ezra 4:13
Let it now be known to the king, that if this city is rebuilt and the walls completed, they will not pay tax, tribute, or toll, and the king's treasury will be damaged.
Ezra 4:14
Now because we derive our subsistence from the palace, it was not proper for us to see the king's dishonor; therefore we have sent and informed the king,
Romans 13:6
For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing.
Romans 13:7
Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.