1 Corinthians 9:18
And my reward? This, that I can preach the gospel free of charge, that I can refrain from insisting on all my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 7:31
let those who mix in the world live as if they were not engrossed in it, for the present phase of things is passing away.
Romans 14:15
If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 9:6-7
What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living?
1 Corinthians 10:33
Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number ??at their salvation.
2 Corinthians 4:5
(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)
2 Corinthians 11:7-9
But perhaps I did wrong in taking a humble place that you might have a high one ??I mean, in preaching the gospel of God to you for nothing!
2 Corinthians 12:13-18
Where were you inferior to the rest of the churches? ??unless in this, that your apostle did not choose to make himself a burden to you. Pray pardon me this terrible wrong!
1 Thessalonians 2:6
we never sought honour from men, from you or from anybody else, though as apostles of Christ we had the power of claiming to be men of weight;
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
we did not take free meals from anyone; no, toiling hard at our trade, we worked night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you.