1 Corinthians 9:12
If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?
Cross References
Genesis 24:56And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.
Luke 11:52Woe to you lawyers! Because ye took away the key of knowledge. Ye did not enter in yourselves, and ye hindered those who were entering in.
Acts 20:31Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.
1 Corinthians 4:11As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.
1 Corinthians 6:7Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
1 Corinthians 9:15But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:4-15
Rights of a Christian Minister. ( a. d. 57.) 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these… Read the whole commentary →