1 Corinthians 9:18
What is my reward, then? To present the good news free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.
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Romans 14:15If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower’s feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!
1 Corinthians 8:9But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 10:33for I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but do what is best for others, so that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 11:7Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted – I mean because I told you God’s good news without payment.
1 Thessalonians 2:6Nor did we seek to win honor from people, whether from you or from others, although, as apostles of Christ, we might have burdened you with our support.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:16-19
The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is… Read the whole commentary →