1 Corinthians 9:12
And if others have this power over you, much more have we. But we are not used in this power; but we bear all, lest in any thing we should hinder the gospel of the Meshiha.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
11If we of the spirit have sown among you, is it a great thing if we from you of the body shall reap?
Cross References
Luke 11:52Woe to you, Sophree; for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you enter not in (yourselves), and they who are entering you prohibit.
Acts 20:31On account of this be watchful, and remember, that for three years I ceased not by night and by day with tears to instruct every one of you.
1 Corinthians 4:11Until this hour we hunger and thirst, we are naked and beaten and have no fixed dwelling;
1 Corinthians 6:7Now, therefore, you make yourselves guilty while you have litigation one with another. For why do you not bear injury? and why do you not suffer fraud?
1 Corinthians 9:15But I am not used in one of these; nor on this account have I thus written, that so it should be done unto me: for it were better for me that dying I should die, than that any man my glorying should make void.
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 →