1 Corinthians 9:4

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

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

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

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

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

I don’t receive glory from men.

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

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.

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,

He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.

Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine.

He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in width, and toward the east ten thousand in width, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the middle of it.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”

Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

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

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

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.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.