1 Corinthians 9:12
If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
2 Corinthians 11:12
I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.
2 Corinthians 11:7-10
Is it a sin, forsooth, that I humbled myself that you might be exalted, in preaching the gospel to you free of cost?
Luke 11:52
"Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge!' You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who are trying to enter."
Acts 18:3
Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them??or by trade they were tentmakers.
Acts 20:31-34
So be on guard; and remember that for three years I ceased not to admonish you all, night and day, even with tears.
Romans 15:22
This is why I have been so hindered from coming to you.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 6:7
Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?
1 Corinthians 9:2
Even if I am not an apostle to others, to you at least I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:3
I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited;
2 Corinthians 11:20
You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!
2 Corinthians 12:13-14
In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
1 Thessalonians 2:6-9
Now was I seeking glory from men, either yourselves or others, although I might have exercised authority as Christ's apostle.
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.