OUR FATHER WHO GIVES US RIGHTS IN HIS KINGDOM BUT PERMITS US TO FORFEIT THOSE RIGHTS FOR ADDED PARTICIPATION IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 11 says this;

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 

The apostle Paul, writing to the people at Corinth among whom he had laboured to plant spiritual seeds, asks them if in all the ways he had served them, it was too much to expect some material support from them.

Paul asserts (with strong reasons) that he did in fact have the right to expect material support from those he ministered to as he says in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 12;

If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

In this verse, Paul continues by inverting his case and telling the Corinthians that even though he could have rightly obligated them to financially support him, he declined to do so so that his own requirements would not be  the reason why the gospel's spread was hindered.

Paul put up with the difficulties of having a full-time job while meeting the demands of a full-time ministry in order to support himself and thus have no burden to place on the people of Corinth.

Amen.

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