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 not ye my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2 (show verse)
If I be not an apostle unto others, yet am I unto you. For the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:3 (show verse)
Mine answer to them that ask 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)
Either, have we not power to lead about a sister to wife as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6 (show verse)
Either only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?
1 Corinthians 9:7 (show verse)
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own cost? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit? Or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk?
1 Corinthians 9:8 (show verse)
Say I these things after the manner of men? Or sayeth not the law the same also?
1 Corinthians 9:9 (show verse)
For it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn." Doth God take thought for oxen?
1 Corinthians 9:10 (show verse)
Either saith he it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he which eareth should ear in hope: and that he which thresheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope.
1 Corinthians 9:11 (show verse)
If we sow unto you spiritual things: is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?
1 Corinthians 9:12 (show verse)
If others be partakers of this power over you, wherefore are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power: but suffer all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13 (show verse)
Do ye not understand how that they which minister in the temple, have their finding of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14 (show verse)
Even so also did the Lord ordain, that they which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:15 (show verse)
But I have used none of these things. Neither wrote I these things that it should be so done unto me. For it were better for me to die than any man should take this rejoicing from me.
1 Corinthians 9:16 (show verse)
In that I preach the gospel, I have nothing to rejoice of. For necessity is put unto me. Woe is it unto me if I preach not the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:17 (show verse)
If I do it with a good will, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, an office is committed unto me.
1 Corinthians 9:18 (show verse)
What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the gospel, I make the gospel of Christ free, that I misuse not mine authority in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:19 (show verse)
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all men, that I might win the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20 (show verse)
And unto the Jews, I became as a Jew, to win the Jews. To them that were under the law, was I made as though I had been under the law, to win them that were under the law.
1 Corinthians 9:21 (show verse)
To them that were without law, became I as though I had been without law - when I was not without law as pertaining to God, but under a law as concerning Christ - to win them that were without law.
1 Corinthians 9:22 (show verse)
To the weak became I as weak, to win the weak. In all thing I fashioned myself to all men, to save, at the leastway, some.
1 Corinthians 9:23 (show verse)
And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I might have my part thereof.
1 Corinthians 9:24 (show verse)
Perceive ye not how that they which run in a course, run all, yet but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain.
1 Corinthians 9:25 (show verse)
Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown.
1 Corinthians 9:26 (show verse)
I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians 9:27 (show verse)
but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.