1 Corinthians 9:15
But 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.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
14So also our Lord hath commanded, that they who his gospel preach, by his gospel shall live.
Cross References
Matthew 18:6And every one that shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, to him it had been better that the mill-stone of an ass were hung to his neck, and himself plunged into the depths of the sea.
Acts 18:3(and) because he was a son of their art, he dwelt with them and wrought with them: but in their art they were tentmakers.
Acts 20:34and you know to the necessity of myself, and of those who are with me, these hands have ministered.
1 Corinthians 9:12And 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.
2 Corinthians 12:13For in what have you been less than the other churches, except in this, that I have not burdened you? Forgive me this offence.
1 Thessalonians 2:9Remember, therefore, my brethren, how we laboured and toiled in the work of our hands by night and by day, that we might not be a burden on one of you.
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 →