Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 9:1 (show verse)
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2 (show verse)
Even if I am not an apostle to others, to you at least I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:3 (show verse)
This is my reply to my critics.
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1 Corinthians 9:4 (show verse)
Have I no right to claim food and drink?
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1 Corinthians 9:5 (show verse)
Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?
1 Corinthians 9:6 (show verse)
Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?
1 Corinthians 9:7 (show verse)
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk?
1 Corinthians 9:8 (show verse)
Am I saying this on human authority only, or does not the Law also say the same?
1 Corinthians 9:9 (show verse)
Yea, in the Law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while he is treading out the grain.
1 Corinthians 9:10 (show verse)
Is it the oxen that God is thinking about, or is it really said for our sakes? It was written for us; because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop.
1 Corinthians 9:11 (show verse)
If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?
1 Corinthians 9:12 (show verse)
If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:13 (show verse)
You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?
1 Corinthians 9:14 (show verse)
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:15 (show verse)
But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.
1 Corinthians 9:16 (show verse)
Proclaiming the gospel gives me no ground of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; woe is me if I preach not the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:17 (show verse)
For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.
1 Corinthians 9:18 (show verse)
What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:19 (show verse)
Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20 (show verse)
To the Jews I am become like a Jew, that I may win Jews; to those under the Law, like one under the Law, though I am not under the Law, myself;
1 Corinthians 9:21 (show verse)
to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ).
1 Corinthians 9:22 (show verse)
I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.
1 Corinthians 9:23 (show verse)
And I am doing it all for the gospel's sake, that I may become a copartner in it.
1 Corinthians 9:24 (show verse)
Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:25 (show verse)
Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.
1 Corinthians 9:26 (show verse)
For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,
1 Corinthians 9:27 (show verse)
but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.