1 Corinthians 9:16,18  For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. • What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

Acts 4:18-20  And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. • But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; • for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."

2 Corinthians 5:14  For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

Matthew 25:25-27  'And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.' • "But his master answered and said to him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. • Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.

Mark 5:19  And He did not let him, but He said to him, "Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you."

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