1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14So, also, the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.
Cross References
Matthew 18:6but whoever ensnares one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Acts 18:3and because he was of the same trade, he made his home with them, and worked: for by trade they were tent-makers.
Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:13For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, unless in this―that I did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
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 →