1Cor 9 | ABEn | STEP | Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? [ 2 not 4 Jesus 5 Christ 6 our Lord 1 Have I 3 seen]? [ 2 not 3 my work 1 Are you] in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 9

CHAPTER 9 The Rights of Apostleship

1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? [²not ⁴Jesus ⁵Christ ⁶our Lord ¹Have I ³seen]? [²not ³my work ¹Are you] in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, but indeed [²to you ¹I am]; [³the ¹for ⁴seal ⁵of my ⁶commission ²you are] in the Lord. 3 My defense to the ones questioning me is this. 4 Do we not have authority to eat and to drink? 5 Do we not have authority [²a sister ³a wife ¹to lead about], as also the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or only I and Barnabas have not authority to not work? 7 Who soldiers by his own rations at any time? Who plants a vineyard, and from the fruit of it does not eat? or who tends a flock, and from the milk of the flock does not eat? 8 Is it according to a man these things I speak, or does not also the law say these things? 9 For in the law of Moses it has been written, You shall not muzzle an ox threshing. Is not the ox a care to God? 10 Or because of us assuredly it says? [²because of ³us ¹For] it was written that, [⁵in ⁶hope ³ought ¹The one ²plowing ⁴to plow], and the one threshing [⁴of the thing ⁵of his hope ³is to partake ¹in ²hope]. 11 If we [⁴to you ²the ³spiritual things ¹sowed], is it a great thing if we [²your ³fleshly things ¹harvest]? 12 If others [²of the ³authority ⁴over you ¹partake], should not we more? But we did not use this authority; but all things we hold off, that [²not ⁴any hindrance ¹we should ³give] to the good news of the Christ. 13 Do you not know that the ones [⁶the ⁷consecrated things ¹working ²at ³the ⁴temple ⁵shall eat]? and the ones [²the ³altar ¹taking care of ⁵the ⁶altar ⁴receive a portion of]? 14 So also the Lord set in order for the ones [²the ³good news ¹announcing], [²from the announcing ³of the ⁴good news ¹to live]. 15 But I [²none ¹used] of these things. [²I did not ³write ¹But] these things, that thus it should happen with me. For it is good for me rather to die than [⁴my boasting ¹that ²anyone ³should nullify]. 16 For if I announce good news, there is not a boasting to me; for a necessity is pressed upon me; [³woe ¹but ⁴to me ²it is] if I should not announce good news. 17 For if I willingly do this, [²a wage ¹I have]; but if unwillingly, [²a management ¹I am entrusted with]. 18 What then to me is the wage? That announcing good news free I should establish the good news of the Christ, for the not abusing my authority in the good news.

Serve All Men

19 [³free ¹For ²being] from all, to all [²myself ¹I enslaved], that the many more I should gain. 20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I should gain the Jews; to the ones under law, as under law, that the ones under law I should gain; 21 to the lawless ones, as a lawless one, (not being lawless to God, but lawful to Christ), that I should gain the lawless ones. 22 I became to the weak as weak, that the weak I should gain. To all these I have become all things, that assuredly some I should deliver. 23 But this I do on account of the good news, that [²a fellow-partaker with ³him ¹I should become].

Run to Win

24 Do you not know that the ones [²in ³the stadium ¹running], all indeed run, but one receives the victory prize? Thus you run that you should overtake! 25 But every one struggling, in all things controls himself; that indeed then that a corruptible crown they should receive; but we an incorruptible crown. 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so I box, as not [²the air ¹flaying]. 27 But I bruise my body, and bring it into slavery, lest to others having proclaimed, myself [²debased ¹I should be].