91 Corinthians 9

1Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?Select 1 Corinthians 9:1

2If 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.Select 1 Corinthians 9:2

3My defence to them that examine me is this.Select 1 Corinthians 9:3

4Have we no right to eat and to drink?Select 1 Corinthians 9:4

5Have 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?Select 1 Corinthians 9:5

6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?Select 1 Corinthians 9:6

7What 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?Select 1 Corinthians 9:7

8Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?Select 1 Corinthians 9:8

9For 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,Select 1 Corinthians 9:9

10or 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.Select 1 Corinthians 9:10

11If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?Select 1 Corinthians 9:11

12If 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.Select 1 Corinthians 9:12

13Know 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?Select 1 Corinthians 9:13

14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.Select 1 Corinthians 9:14

15But 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 glorying void.Select 1 Corinthians 9:15

16For 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.Select 1 Corinthians 9:16

17For 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.Select 1 Corinthians 9:17

18What 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.Select 1 Corinthians 9:18

19For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.Select 1 Corinthians 9:19

20And 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;Select 1 Corinthians 9:20

21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.Select 1 Corinthians 9:21

22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.Select 1 Corinthians 9:22

23And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.Select 1 Corinthians 9:23

24Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.Select 1 Corinthians 9:24

25And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.Select 1 Corinthians 9:25

26I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:Select 1 Corinthians 9:26

27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.Select 1 Corinthians 9:27