1 Corinthians 9:15
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Corinthians 9:15 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Corinthians 9:15 is a verse from the book of 1 Corinthians in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it wer..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Corinthians 9:15 — KJV
“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 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 9:15 in Context — About the Book of 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians is pastoral surgery on a gifted, divided, messy church — addressing factions, immorality, lawsuits, worship chaos, and doubts about resurrection. It contains the love chapter read at countless weddings and the Bible's fullest teaching on spiritual gifts and the resurrection body.
Cross-References for 1 Corinthians 9:15
“For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 9:15: none, these, things
“It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 9:15: these, things, should
“There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 9:15: none, neither, than
“Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 9:15: should, better, die
“And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 9:15: used, neither, any
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