1 Corinthians 9:18

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

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.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

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.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

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.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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.”

The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

I don’t receive glory from men.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

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

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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

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.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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 though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

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.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

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

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

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

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

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.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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.

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.