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1 Corinthians, Chapter 9

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.	1 Co1 9:19 Co1 10:29 Act 14:14 Rom 1:1 Co2 12:12 Th1 2:6 Ti1 2:7 Ti2 1:11 Act 9:3 Act 9:17 Act 18:9 Act 22:14 Act 22:18 Act 23:11 Co1 15:8 Co1 3:6 Co1 4:15 2 Joh 3:33 Co2 3:2 Act 1:25
³ My defense to those who examine me is this: ⁴ ^aDo we not have a right to eat and drink? ⁵ ^bDo we not have a right to take along a^c Lit sister, as wifebelieving wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? ⁶ Or do only^d Lit I and BarnabasBarnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? ⁷ Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not^e Lit eat ofuse the milk of the flock?	4 Co1 9:14 Th1 2:6 Th1 2:9 Th2 3:8 5 Co1 7:7 Mat 12:46 Mat 8:14 Joh 1:42 6 Act 4:36 7 Co2 10:4 Ti1 1:18 Ti2 2:3 Deu 20:6 Pro 27:18 Co1 3:6 Co1 3:8
⁸ I am not speaking these things according to^f Lit manhuman judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things? ⁹ For it is written in the Law of Moses, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He? ¹⁰ Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops. ¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? ¹² If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share^g Lit withfrom the altar? ¹⁴ So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.	8 Rom 3:5 9 Deu 25:4 Ti1 5:18 Deu 22:1-4 Pro 12:10 10 Rom 4:23 Ti2 2:6 11 Rom 15:27 Co1 9:14 12 Act 18:3 Act 20:33 Co1 9:15 Co1 9:18 Co2 6:3 Co2 11:12 Co1 4:15 Co1 9:14 Co1 9:16 Co1 9:18 Co1 9:23 Co2 2:12 13 Rom 6:16 Lev 6:16 Lev 6:26 Lev 7:6 Lev 7:31 Num 5:9 Num 18:8-20 Num 18:31 Deu 18:1 14 Mat 10:10 Luk 10:7 Ti1 5:18 Co1 4:15 Co1 9:12 Co1 9:16 Co1 9:18 Co1 9:23 Co2 2:12 Luk 10:8 Co1 9:4
¹⁵ But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. ¹⁸ 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.	15 Act 18:3 Act 20:33 Co1 9:12 Co1 9:18 Co2 11:10 16 Act 9:15 Rom 1:14 Co1 4:15 Co1 9:12 Co1 9:14 Co1 9:18 Co1 9:23 Co2 2:12 17 Joh 4:36 Co1 3:8 Co1 9:18 Co1 4:1 Gal 2:7 Eph 3:2 Php 1:16 Col 1:25 18 Joh 4:36 Co1 3:8 Co1 9:17 Act 18:3 Co2 11:7 Co2 12:13 Co1 7:31 Co1 9:12
¹⁹ For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. ²⁰ To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under^h Or lawthe Law, as underⁱ Or lawthe Law though not being myself under^j Or lawthe Law, so that I might win those who are under^k Or lawthe Law; ²¹ to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. ²² To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. ²³ I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.	19 Co1 9:1 Co2 4:5 Gal 5:13 Mat 18:15 Pe1 3:1 20 Act 16:3 Act 21:23-26 Rom 11:14 Gal 2:19 21 Rom 2:12 Rom 2:14 Gal 2:3 Gal 3:2 Co1 7:22 Gal 6:2 22 Rom 14:1 Rom 15:1 Co2 11:29 Co1 10:33 Rom 11:14
²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. ²⁵ Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; ²⁷ but I^l Lit bruisediscipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.	24 Co1 9:13 Php 3:14 Col 2:18 Gal 2:2 Ti2 4:7 Heb 12:1 25 Eph 6:12 Ti1 6:12 Ti2 2:5 Ti2 4:7 Ti2 4:8 Jam 1:12 Pe1 5:4 Rev 2:10 Rev 3:11 26 Gal 2:2 Ti2 4:7 Heb 12:1 Co1 14:9 27 Rom 8:13


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