1Cor 9:4-18 | NASB2020 | STEP | Do we not have a right to eat and drink ?

1 Corinthians 9:4-18

4 ^{▼▼Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it?
,} ^bDo we not have a right to eat and drink? 5 ^{▼▼Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?
,} ^dDo we not have a right to take along a ^{▼▼Lit sister, as a wife}believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the ^fbrothers of the Lord, and ^{▼▼Peter’s Aramaic name
,} ^hCephas? 6 Or do only ^{▼▼Lit I and Barnabas
,} ^jBarnabas and I have no right to refrain from ^{▼▼I.e., to support themselves}working? 7 Who at any time serves ^las a soldier at his own expense? Who ^mplants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not ^{▼▼Lit eat from}consume some of the milk of the flock?

8 I am not just asserting these things ^oaccording to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “ ^pYou shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about ^qoxen, is He? 10 Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written ^rfor our sake, because ^sthe plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops. 11 ^tIf we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12 If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we ^udid not use this right, but we endure all things ^vso that we will cause no hindrance to the ^wgospel of Christ. 13 ^xDo you not know that those who ^yperform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share ^{▼▼Lit with}from the altar? 14 So also ^aathe Lord directed those who proclaim the ^abgospel to ^acget their living from the gospel.

15 But I have ^adused none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make ^aemy boast an empty one! 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for ^afI am under compulsion; for woe to me if I do not preach ^agthe gospel. 17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a ^ahreward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a ^aicommission nonetheless. 18 What, then, is my ^ajreward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel ^akwithout charge, so as ^alnot to make full use of my right in the gospel.