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1 Corinthians 9 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:3 - Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:4 - Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:6 - Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:8 - Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:11 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:14 - Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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 save some.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:23 - And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:25 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:26 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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.
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