16For 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!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)Here he tells them that he had, notwithstanding, waived his privilege, and lays down his reason for doing it. I. He tells them that he had neglected to claim his right in times past: I have used none of these things , 1 Cor. 9:15. He neither ate nor drank himself at their cost, nor led about a wife to be maintained by them, nor forbore working to maintain himself. From others he received a mainten…
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