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1st Corinthians 9
1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I
not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my
work in the Lord?
2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet
doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine
apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is
this,
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a
wife, as well as other apostles, and as the
brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to
forbear working?
7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own
charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not
of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and
eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the
law the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou
shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that
treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for
oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For
our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he
that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he
that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his
hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is
it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal
things?
12 If others be partakers of this power over you,
are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used
this power; but suffer all things, lest we should
hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Do ye not know that they which minister about
holy things live of the things of the temple? and
they which wait at the altar are partakers with
the altar?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which
preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: neither
have I written these things, that it should be so
done unto me: for it were better for me to die,
than that any man should make my glorying void.
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing
to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea,
woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a
reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of
the gospel is committed unto me.
18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I
preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of
Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power
in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I
made myself servant unto all, that I might gain
the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
might gain the Jews; to them that are under the
law, as under the law, that I might gain them
that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law,
(being not without law to God, but under the law
to Christ,) that I might gain them that are
without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might
gain the weak: I am made all things to all men,
that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I
might be partaker thereof with you.
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye
may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is
temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain
a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into
subjection: lest that by any means, when I have
preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
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