1 Corinthians 9
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1 Corinthians 9:13-22

13Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

14So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

15But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

16For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

18What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.

19For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].

20And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

21to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to 1God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law.

22I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

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  1. 1. 1 Corinthians 9:21 9.21 Elohim ↩

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