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Library > Bible versions > NIV > 1 Corinthians > 9 > 1 Corinthians   9 : 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? 9 : 2 Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 9 : 3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 9 : 4 Don`t we have the right to food and drink? 9 : 5 Don`t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord`s brothers and Cephas? 9 : 6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living? 9 : 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk? 9 : 8 Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Doesn`t the Law say the same thing? 9 : 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 9 : 10 Surely he says this for us, doesn`t he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. 9 : 11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 9 : 12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn`t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. 9 : 13 Don`t you know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 9 : 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel. 9 : 15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of this boast. 9 : 16 Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 9 : 17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. 9 : 18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make use of my rights in preaching it. 9 : 19 Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 9 : 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 9 : 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God`s law but am under Christ`s law), so as to win those not having the law. 9 : 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 9 : 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. 9 : 24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 9 : 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 9 : 26 Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. 9 : 27 No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.