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1 Corinthians - ch 9 v 1 - 20
- Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
- If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
- My defence to them that examine me is this.
- Have we no right to eat and to drink?
- Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
- Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
- What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
- Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
- For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,
- or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, `to thresh' in hope of partaking.
- If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
- If others partake of `this' right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
- Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat `of' the things of the temple, `and' they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?
- Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.
- But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for `it were' good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.
- For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.
- For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
- What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
- For though I was free from all `men,' I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
- And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
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