1 Corinthians 9:18
What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, not taking advantage of my rights in the gospel.
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Romans 14:15But if your brother is hurt because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
1 Corinthians 10:33Just as I try to please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but that of the many, that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 11:7Have I committed an offence by abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached the gospel of God to you without cost?
1 Thessalonians 2:6Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have asserted our authority, as the apostles of Christ.
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 →