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1 Corinthians 9 📜 📕 ↷
Rights of an Apostle
1 AM I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Have I not seen Christ JESUS our Lord? Are not you my work in our Lord?📜💬📚
2 And if to others I be not an Apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my Apostleship in our Lord.📜💬📚
3 my defense to them that examine me is this.📜💬📚
4 Have not we power to eat and drink?📜💬📚
5 Have we not power to lead about a woman a sister, as also the rest of the Apostles, and our Lord's brethren, and Cephas?📜💬📚
6 Or I only and Barnabas have not we power to do this?📜💬📚
7 Who ever playeth the soldier at his own charges? who planteth a vine, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?📜💬📚
8 Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the Law also say these things?📜💬📚
9 For it is written in the Law of Moyses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Why, hath God care of oxen?📜💬📚
10 Or for us certes doth he say it? For they are written for us. Because he that eareth, ought to ear in hope: and he that treadeth, in hope to receive fruit.📜💬📚
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?📜💬📚
12 If other be partakers of your power; why not we rather? Howbeit we have not used, this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any offence to the Gospel of Christ.📜💬📚
13 Know you not that they which work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place: and they that serve the altar, participate with the altar?📜💬📚
14 So also our Lord ordained for them that preach the Gospel, to live of the Gospel.📜💬📚
15 But I have used none of these. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done in me; for it is good for me to die rather, than that any man should make my glory void.📜💬📚
16 For & if I evangelize, it is no glory to me: for necessity lieth upon me: for woe is to me if I evangelize not.📜💬📚
17 For if I do this willingly, I have reward: but if against my will, a charge is committed to me.📜💬📚
18 What is my reward then? That preaching the Gospel, I yield the Gospel without cost, that I abuse not my power in the Gospel.📜💬📚
Paul the Servant to All
19 For whereas I was free of all, I made my self the servant of all: that I might gain the more.📜💬📚
20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews.📜💬📚
21 To them that are under the Law, as though I were under the Law (whereas my self was not under the Law) that I might gain them that were under the Law. To them that were without the Law, as though I were without the Law (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ) that I might gain them that were without the Law.📜💬📚
22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. To all men I became all things, that I might save all.📜💬📚
23 And I do all things for the Gospel, that I may be made partaker thereof.📜💬📚
Run Your Race to Win
24 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the price? So run that you may obtain.📜💬📚
25 And every one the striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they certes, that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible.📜💬📚
26 I therefore so run, not as it were at an uncertain thing: so I fight, not as it were beating the air:📜💬📚
27 But I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest perhaps when I have preached to others, my self become reprobate.📜💬📚
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