Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? Act 9:171Co 3:61Co 9:191Ti 2:7Act 23:11Act 9:32Ti 1:11Gal 1:15-17 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 2Co 12:122Co 3:1-3Jhn 6:27 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 1Co 14:372Co 10:7-82Co 12:16-192Co 13:102Co 13:32Co 13:52Ti 4:16Act 22:1 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 1Th 2:62Th 3:8-9Luk 10:71Co 9:7-141Th 2:9Gal 6:6Mat 10:101Ti 5:17-18 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? Jhn 1:421Co 7:391Co 7:7Act 1:14Gal 1:19Heb 13:4Mat 8:141Co 1:12 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 2Th 3:7-9Act 13:1-21Th 2:9Act 18:3Act 4:361Co 4:11-12Act 11:22Act 14:12 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? Pro 27:18Deu 20:62Ti 2:3-41Co 3:6-81Ti 1:18Act 20:28Jer 23:2-3Pro 27:27 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 1Co 14:341Co 7:401Th 2:131Th 4:8Isa 8:20Rom 3:31Rom 6:19 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? Deu 25:41Ti 5:18Psa 104:27Jon 4:11Psa 145:15-16Deu 22:1-4Deu 5:14Luk 12:24-28 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 2Ti 2:6Rom 15:4Rom 4:23-241Co 3:92Co 4:15Jhn 4:35-38Luk 17:7-8Mat 24:22 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? Rom 15:27Gal 6:62Co 11:15Mat 10:102Ki 5:13Mal 3:8-9 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 1Co 9:151Co 9:182Co 11:121Th 2:6-92Co 11:7-101Co 9:21Co 4:11-121Co 4:14-15 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Lev 6:26Num 18:8-20Num 5:9-101Co 10:181Sa 2:28Deu 18:1-5Deu 10:9Lev 6:16-18 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. Mat 10:101Ti 5:17-181Co 9:4Gal 6:6Luk 10:7 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 1Th 2:92Th 3:81Co 9:122Co 11:9-12Act 18:3Act 20:24Act 20:341Co 4:12 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! Rom 1:14Jer 20:9Col 4:17Luk 9:62Act 26:16-20Act 4:20Amo 3:8Act 9:15 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. Gal 2:71Co 3:81Ch 28:9Col 1:25Mat 10:411Ch 29:51Ch 29:91Co 3:14 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 2Co 11:7-91Co 10:331Co 8:91Th 2:62Th 3:8-92Co 12:13-181Co 7:311Co 9:6-7 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. Gal 5:13Mat 18:151Co 10:33Jas 5:19-201Ti 4:16Mat 20:26-281Co 9:20-222Ti 2:10 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; Act 16:3Gal 5:18Act 21:20-26Act 17:2-3Act 18:18Gal 4:21Gal 4:5Rom 11:14 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. Rom 2:12Gal 3:2Rom 2:141Co 7:19-22Mat 5:17-20Gal 5:13-14Tit 2:2-121Th 4:1-2 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 1Co 10:33Rom 15:11Co 9:19Rom 11:14Gal 6:11Co 8:131Co 7:162Co 11:29 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. 2Ti 2:101Co 9:25-27Mrk 8:351Jn 1:3Gal 2:5Heb 3:142Co 2:41Co 9:12 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. Php 3:14Heb 12:12Ti 4:7-8Rev 3:11Php 2:161Co 9:26Gal 5:7Jer 12:5 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 2Ti 2:5Rev 2:101Ti 6:122Ti 4:7-8Jas 1:12Rev 3:112Pe 1:61Pe 1:4 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 2Pe 1:102Ti 2:5Php 1:21Col 1:292Ti 1:12Luk 13:241Pe 5:1Eph 6:12 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. Rom 8:131Co 9:25Col 3:52Co 13:5-61Pe 2:111Co 6:12-132Co 6:4-51Co 8:13