kjc 1Corinthians:9
kjc@1Corinthians:9:1 @ Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:2 @ If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are you in the Lord.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:3 @ Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
kjc@1Corinthians:9:4 @ Have we not power to eat and to drink?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:6 @ Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:7 @ Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:8 @ Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:9 @ For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:10 @ Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:11 @ If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:12 @ If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but tolerate all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:13 @ Do you 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?
kjc@1Corinthians:9:14 @ Even so has the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:15 @ 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.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:16 @ For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
kjc@1Corinthians:9:17 @ 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.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:18 @ What is my reward then? truthfully that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:19 @ For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:20 @ 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;
kjc@1Corinthians:9:21 @ 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.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:22 @ 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.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:23 @ And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker of it with you.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:24 @ Do you not know that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:25 @ And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
kjc@1Corinthians:9:26 @ I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
kjc@1Corinthians:9:27 @ 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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