Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 9:1 (show verse)
Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2 (show verse)
If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:3 (show verse)
My answer to those who examine me is this:
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1 Corinthians 9:4 (show verse)
Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
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1 Corinthians 9:5 (show verse)
Do we not have authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord do, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6 (show verse)
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority whether not to work?
1 Corinthians 9:7 (show verse)
Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians 9:8 (show verse)
Do I say these things according to man? Or does not the Law say the same also?
1 Corinthians 9:9 (show verse)
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?
1 Corinthians 9:10 (show verse)
Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
1 Corinthians 9:11 (show verse)
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
1 Corinthians 9:12 (show verse)
If others have a share of this authority over you, rather should not we? But we have not used this authority, but we endured all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13 (show verse)
Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.
1 Corinthians 9:14 (show verse)
Even so, the Lord ordained those announcing the gospel to live from the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:15 (show verse)
But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.
1 Corinthians 9:16 (show verse)
For though I preach the gospel, no glory is to me. For necessity is laid on me; yea, woe is to me if I do not preach the gospel!
1 Corinthians 9:17 (show verse)
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I am entrusted with a stewardship.
1 Corinthians 9:18 (show verse)
What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:19 (show verse)
For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20 (show verse)
And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, I became as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.
1 Corinthians 9:21 (show verse)
To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.
1 Corinthians 9:22 (show verse)
To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.
1 Corinthians 9:23 (show verse)
And this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I might be partaker of it with you.
1 Corinthians 9:24 (show verse)
Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
1 Corinthians 9:25 (show verse)
And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:26 (show verse)
So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
1 Corinthians 9:27 (show verse)
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.