1 Corinthians Chapter 9
9:1 | Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen ![]() |
9:2 | If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. |
9:3 | Mine ![]() ![]() |
9:4 | Have we not ![]() ![]() |
9:5 | Have we not ![]() |
9:6 | Or I only and Barnabas, have not we ![]() |
9:7 | Who goeth a warfare any ![]() ![]() |
9:8 | Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? |
9:9 | For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the ![]() |
9:10 | Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. |
9:11 | If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? |
9:12 | If others be partakers of [this] ![]() ![]() |
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9:14 | Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. |
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. |
9:16 | For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to ![]() ![]() |
9:17 | For if I ![]() |
9:18 | What is my reward then? ![]() ![]() |
9:19 | For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. |
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; |
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. |
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 ![]() |
9:23 | And this I ![]() |
9:24 | Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. |
9:25 | And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they ![]() |
9:26 | I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: |
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. |