1 Corinthians 9:12

9:12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?

But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Mark 8:35

8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

Mark 8:2

8:2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

Colossians 2:4

2:4 I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

Galatians 2:5

2:5 But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

Galatians 2:2

2:2 I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running – or had not run – in vain.

Galatians 2:10

2:10 They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.