Acts 20:33 References

33 "aI have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

a 1 Corinthians 9:4-18, 2 Corinthians 11:7-12, 2 Corinthians 12:14-18, 1 Thessalonians 2:5

1 Corinthians 9

4 aDo we not have a right to eat and drink?
5 aDo we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the bbrothers of the Lord and cCephas?
6 Or do only aBarnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?
7 Who at any time serves aas a soldier at his own expense? Who bplants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?
8 I am not speaking these things aaccording to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "aYOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING." God is not concerned about boxen, is He?
10 Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, afor our sake it was written, because bthe plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
11 aIf we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
12 If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we adid not use this right, but we endure all things bso that we will cause no hindrance to the cgospel of Christ.
13 aDo you not know that those who bperform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?
14 So also athe Lord directed those who proclaim the bgospel to cget their living from the gospel.
15 But I have aused none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make bmy boast an empty one.
16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for aI am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach bthe gospel.
17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a areward; but if against my will, I have a bstewardship entrusted to me.
18 What then is my areward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel bwithout charge, so as cnot to make full use of my right in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 11

7 Or adid I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the bgospel of God to you cwithout charge?
8 I robbed other churches by ataking wages from them to serve you;
9 and when I was present with you and was in need, I was anot a burden to anyone; for when bthe brethren came from cMacedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from abeing a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
10 aAs the truth of Christ is in me, bthis boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of cAchaia.
11 Why? aBecause I do not love you? bGod knows I do!
12 But what I am doing I will continue to do, aso that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.

2 Corinthians 12

14 Here afor this third time I am ready to come to you, and I bwill not be a burden to you; for I cdo not seek what is yours, but dyou; for echildren are not responsible to save up for their parents, but fparents for their children.
15 I will amost gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If bI love you more, am I to be loved less?
16 But be that as it may, I adid not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I btook you in by deceit.
17 aCertainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?
18 I aurged bTitus to go, and I sent cthe brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same dspirit and walk ein the same steps?

1 Thessalonians 2

5 For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with aa pretext for greed--bGod is witness--