Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

General references

Bible References

Of men

John 5:41
I receive not honor from men;
John 7:18
He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and in him is no unrighteousness.
John 12:43
for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that is of God.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Or am I endeavoring to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:13
For not even do they who become circumcised themselves keep the Law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor; especially they who labor in the word and in teaching.

When

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we not a right to eat and drink?
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I, who present indeed am lowly among you, but am bold toward you when absent;
2 Corinthians 13:10
For this cause I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.
Philemon 1:8
Wherefore, though I have much boldness in Christ to enjoin upon thee that which is befitting,

Been burdensome

1 Corinthians 11:9
and the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or freemen; and were all made to drink one Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

As the

1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

General references

John 5:41
I receive not honor from men;
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;