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AICNT 1COR Chapter 9

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9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus [[Christ]][fn] 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.

3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who do not have the right to refrain from working?

7 Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink the milk of the flock?

8 Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the law also say the same? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.”[fn] Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

10 Or is he saying this certainly for us? For it was written for us that the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one threshing in hope should partake [[in hope]].[fn]

11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

12 If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

13 Do you not know that those who perform the sacred duties eat from the temple, those who attend to the altar share in the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

15 But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For to me, it is better to die than — no one will nullify my boasting. 16 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for {boasting}.[fn] For necessity is laid upon me. {For}[fn] woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. 18 What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel {of Christ}[fn] free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.

20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law [(though not being myself under the law)][fn] that I might win those under the law.

21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.

22 To the weak I became [[as]][fn] weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

23 I do {it all}[fn] for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

24 Do you not know that those who run in a stadium all run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

25 And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things; they then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

26 So I run in this way, not aimlessly; I box in this way, not beating the air; 27 but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest after preaching to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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