1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
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1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
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Deuteronomy 14:27
You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
Romans 15:27
Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in material things.
1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
1 Corinthians 9:8
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
1 Corinthians 9:10
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
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Psalms 90:17
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Matthew 16:18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Matthew 28:19
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Acts 1:2
until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
Romans 15:19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
1 Peter 5:1
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
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Luke 1:2
even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
Luke 24:48
You are witnesses of these things.
Acts 2:32
This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:36
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Acts 10:39
We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 10:40
God raised him up the third day and gave him to be revealed,
Romans 1:4
who was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
1 Corinthians 15:18
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
1 John 4:14
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
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Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
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Acts 14:4
But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews and part with the apostles.
Acts 18:4
He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
Acts 18:6
When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
Acts 18:7
He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
Philippians 2:25
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
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Acts 22:9
“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
Acts 22:10
I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’
Acts 22:13
came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.
Acts 22:16
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
Acts 26:12
“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
Acts 26:13
at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
Acts 26:14
When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
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Romans 14:20
Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
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Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
Acts 14:28
They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
Acts 15:4
When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.
Acts 15:6
The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
Acts 15:12
All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
Romans 15:20
yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 10:16
so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
Galatians 2:21
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
Titus 2:7
In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
1 Peter 5:12
Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
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1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
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1 Corinthians 4:1
So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
1 Corinthians 4:2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
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1 Corinthians 4:14
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Timothy 1:2
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
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1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
2 Corinthians 11:9
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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1 Corinthians 5:2
You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
2 Corinthians 2:6
This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
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1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
1 Timothy 1:18
I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
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2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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Luke 6:13
When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
Luke 11:49
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
Galatians 1:11
But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
Galatians 1:13
For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
Galatians 1:17
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
Galatians 1:19
But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
Ephesians 3:5
which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Revelation 18:20
“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has judged your judgment on her.”
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Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
2 Corinthians 5:12
For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
2 Corinthians 10:9
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 12:1
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast, but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:5
On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.
Galatians 2:5
to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
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James 5:19
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
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James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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1 Corinthians 7:25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
1 Corinthians 7:40
But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:36
What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
2 Peter 3:15
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
1 John 4:6
We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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