1 Corinthians 4:15

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If others share this authority over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this authority, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

For if I proclaim the gospel, I have nothing to boast, for I am under compulsion. For woe is me if I do not proclaim the gospel.

Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed as good news to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,

For we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you. For children ought not to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Therefore the Law has become our tutor unto Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

I plead with you for my child Onesimus, of whom I became a father in my chains,

I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.