Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Bible References

Others

2 Corinthians 11:20
for ye bear with it, if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one smites you on the face.

Nevertheless

1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.
Acts 20:31
Therefore be watchful, and remember that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.
2 Corinthians 11:7
Did I commit an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God without charge?
2 Corinthians 12:13
For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches, except that I myself was not a charge to you? Forgive me this wrong.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor from men sought we glory, either from you, or from others; though we might have used authority as apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat any mans bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

But

1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,
1 Corinthians 6:7
Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Hinder

Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! because ye have taken away the key of knowledge; ye have not entered yourselves, and those who were entering ye have hindered.
Romans 15:22
For which cause also, for the most part, I have been hindered from coming to you.
2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who wish for an occasion, in order that in the matter of which they boast they may be found even as we.

General references

Acts 20:33
I have coveted no mans silver, or gold, or apparel.
2 Corinthians 6:3
giving no occasion for stumbling in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed;
Galatians 6:6
Let him that is taught in the word share with the teacher in all good things.