1 Corinthians 9:12 · KJV
“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.”
— 1 Corinthians 9:12
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, {is it} a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
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? {live: or, feed}
1 Corinthians 9 — Context
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.
11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, {is it} a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12If 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.
13Do 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? {live: or, feed}
14Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:18
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.
2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
1 Corinthians 9:15
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.
1 Thessalonians 2:6-9
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor {yet} of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. {been...: or, used authority}
2 Corinthians 11:7-10
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
1 Corinthians 9:2
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.
Nehemiah 4:8
And conspired all of them together to come {and} to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. {to hinder...: Heb. to make an error to it}
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn {you}.