1 Corinthians 9:12

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

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.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Abstain from every form of evil.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.