Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 9:1 (show verse)
Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord
1 Corinthians 9:2 (show verse)
If to others I am not sent, but surely I am to you: for the seal of my sending are ye in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:3 (show verse)
My justification to them examining me is this,
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1 Corinthians 9:4 (show verse)
have we not power to eat and to drink?
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1 Corinthians 9:5 (show verse)
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6 (show verse)
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power not to work?
1 Corinthians 9:7 (show verse)
Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians 9:8 (show verse)
Not according to man do I speak these things: or does not the law also say these things?
1 Corinthians 9:9 (show verse)
For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?
1 Corinthians 9:10 (show verse)
Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope.
1 Corinthians 9:11 (show verse)
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?
1 Corinthians 9:12 (show verse)
If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13 (show verse)
Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14 (show verse)
Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news.
1 Corinthians 9:15 (show verse)
But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.
1 Corinthians 9:16 (show verse)
For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!
1 Corinthians 9:17 (show verse)
For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
1 Corinthians 9:18 (show verse)
What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.
1 Corinthians 9:19 (show verse)
For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20 (show verse)
And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:21 (show verse)
To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,
1 Corinthians 9:22 (show verse)
I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some.
1 Corinthians 9:23 (show verse)
And this. I do on account of the good news, that I might become a partaker of it.
1 Corinthians 9:24 (show verse)
Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.
1 Corinthians 9:25 (show verse)
And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:26 (show verse)
I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:
1 Corinthians 9:27 (show verse)
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.