1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
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Romans 14:15For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
1 Corinthians 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 11:7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
1 Thessalonians 2:6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as 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 →