1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
14Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel.
Cross References
Matthew 18:6And whosoever shall stumble one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were suspended to his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
Acts 18:3and, because he was of a their trade, he took lodgings with them, and worked with them; for by their trade they were tent-makers.
Acts 20:34And ye yourselves, know, that these hands ministered to my wants, and to them that were with me.
1 Corinthians 9:12And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah.
2 Corinthians 12:13For in what fell ye short of the other churches; except in this, that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this fault.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and toiled, working with our own hands, by night and by day, that we might not be chargeable to any 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 →