Cross references

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

1 Corinthians 9:6 BSB
  1. a Literally Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have authority not to work?

1 Corinthians 9:6 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9 (7 votes) and Acts 13:1–2 (6 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from 2 Kings 6 to 1 Timothy 5.

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Which verses does 1 Corinthians 9:6 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you. …

  2. Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

  3. Acts 4:365 votes

    Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),

  4. Acts 18:35 votes

    and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

  5. Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

  6. Acts 11:224 votes

    When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

  7. Acts 14:124 votes

    Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

  8. Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.” Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark.

  9. You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

  10. To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

  11. Acts 13:502 votes

Which verses point to 1 Corinthians 9:6?

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