Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Over you (umwn). Objective genitive after ecousian.
Do not we yet more? (ou mallon hmeis). Because of Paul's peculiar relation to that church as founder and apostle.
But we bear all things (alla panta stegomen). Old verb to cover (stegh, roof) and so to cover up, to conceal, to endure (I Corinthians 13:7 of love). Paul deliberately declined to use (usual instrumental case with xraomai) his right to pay in Corinth.
That we may cause no hindrance (ina mh tina enkophn dwmen). Late word enkoph, a cutting in (cf. radio or telephone) or hindrance from enkoptw, to cut in, rare word (like ekkoph) here only in N.T. and once in Vettius Valens. How considerate Paul is to avoid "a hindrance to the gospel of Christ" (tw euaggeliw tou Xristou, dative case and genitive) rather than insist on his personal rights and liberties, an eloquent example for all modern men.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 9:12:
1 Corinthians 10:17
1 Corinthians 13:7
1 Thessalonians 1:5
1 Thessalonians 3:1
2 Timothy 2:6
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