Chapter
1 Corinthians 9
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Book 1
Verses 27
| Reference | Verse |
|---|---|
| 1 Corinthians 9:1 | 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 | 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. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:3 | Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, |
| 1 Corinthians 9:4 | Have we not power to eat and to drink? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:5 | Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:6 | Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:7 | Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:8 | Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:9 | For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? |
| 1 Corinthians 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. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:11 | If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:12 | If others be partakers of this power over you, 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 | Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:14 | Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. |
| 1 Corinthians 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. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:16 | For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! |
| 1 Corinthians 9:17 | For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:18 | What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:19 | For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. |
| 1 Corinthians 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; |
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