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1 Corinthians 9:12

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.

KJV

εἰ ἄλλοι τῆς ὑμῶν ἐξουσίας μετέχουσιν, οὐ μᾶλλον ἡμεῖς; ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐχρησάμεθα τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ταύτῃ, ἀλλὰ πάντα στέγομεν ἵνα μή τινα ἐκκοπὴν δῶμεν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Greek NT

Si alii potestatis vestræ participes sunt, quare non potius nos ? Sed non usi sumus hac potestate : sed omnia sustinemus, ne quod offendiculum demus Evangelio Christi.

Vulgate

If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

ASV

If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εὐαγγέλιον
euaggelion
noun · 76×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μετέχω
metecho
verb · 8×
μᾶλλον
mallon
adverb · 81×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
στέγω
stego
verb · 4×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
χράομαι
chraomai
verb · 11×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄλλος
allos
adjective · 154×
ἐγκοπή
egkope
noun · 1×
ἐξουσία
exousia
noun · 102×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ὑμῶν ἐξουσίας | WH/Treg/NIV: ὑμῶν ἐξουσίας | RP: ἐξουσίας ὑμῶν
  • ὑμῶν ἐξουσίαςSBLGNT
  • ὑμῶν ἐξουσίαςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐξουσίας ὑμῶνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τινα ἐγκοπὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: τινα ἐγκοπὴν | RP: ἐγκοπὴν τινα
  • τινα ἐγκοπὴνSBLGNT
  • τινα ἐγκοπὴνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐγκοπὴν τιναRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:11 — Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
  • 1Cor 4:14 — I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
  • 1Cor 6:7 — Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
  • 1Cor 6:12 — All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
  • 1Cor 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.
  • 1Cor 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.
  • 1Cor 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.
  • 1Cor 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.
  • 1Cor 13:7 — Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • 1Thess 2:6 — Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
  • 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
  • 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
  • 2Cor 11:7 — Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
  • 2Cor 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.
  • 2Cor 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.
  • 2Cor 11:20 — For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
  • 2Cor 12:13 — For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
  • 2Thess 3:8 — Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
  • Acts 18:3 — And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
  • Acts 20:31 — Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
  • Acts 20:33 — I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
  • Gen 24:56 — And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
  • Luke 11:52 — Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
  • Neh 4:8 — And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
  • Rom 1:16 — For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • Rom 15:22 — For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.