1Corinthians:9

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ylt @1Corinthians:9:1 @Am not I an apostle ? am not I free ? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen ? my work are not ye in the Lord ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:2 @if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am ; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord . ylt @1Corinthians:9:3 @My defence to those who examine me in this ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:4 @have we not authority to eat and to drink ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:5 @have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about , as also the other apostles , and the brethren of the Lord , and Cephas ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:6 @or only I and Barnabas , have we not authority -- not to work ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:7 @who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time ? who doth plant a vineyard , and of its fruit doth not eat ? or who doth feed a flock , and of the milk of the flock doth not eat ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:8 @According to man do I speak these things ? or doth not also the law say these things ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:9 @for in the law of Moses it hath been written , 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn ;' for the oxen doth God care ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:10 @or because of us by all means doth He say [it ]? yes , because of us it was written , because in hope ought the plower to plow , and he who is treading [ought ] of his hope to partake in hope . ylt @1Corinthians:9:11 @If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great [is it ] if we your fleshly things do reap ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:12 @if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more ? but we did not use this authority , but all things we bear , that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ . ylt @1Corinthians:9:13 @Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat , and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers ? ylt @1Corinthians:9:14 @so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news : of the good news to live . ylt @1Corinthians:9:15 @And I have used none of these things ; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case , for [it is ] good for me rather to die , than that any one may make my glorying void ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:16 @for if I may proclaim good news , it is no glorying for me , for necessity is laid upon me , and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:17 @for if willing I do this , I have a reward ; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted ! ylt @1Corinthians:9:18 @What , then , is my reward ? -- that proclaiming good news , without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ , not to abuse my authority in the good news ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:19 @for being free from all men , to all men I made myself servant , that the more I might gain ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:20 @and I became to the Jews as a Jew , that Jews I might gain ; to those under law as under law , that those under law I might gain ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:21 @to those without law , as without law -- (not being without law to God , but within law to Christ ) -- that I might gain those without law ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:22 @I became to the infirm as infirm , that the infirm I might gain ; to all men I have become all things , that by all means I may save some . ylt @1Corinthians:9:23 @And this I do because of the good news , that a fellow-partaker of it I may become ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:24 @have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run , but one doth receive the prize ? so run ye , that ye may obtain ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:25 @and every one who is striving , is in all things temperate ; these , indeed , then , that a corruptible crown they may receive , but we an incorruptible ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:26 @I , therefore , thus run , not as uncertainly , thus I fight , as not beating air ; ylt @1Corinthians:9:27 @but I chastise my body , and bring [it ] into servitude , lest by any means , having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved .

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