New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 9:1-14

1Am I not 1free? Am I not an 2apostle? Have I not 3seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not 4my work in the Lord? 2If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the 5seal of my 6apostleship in the Lord.

3My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 7 8Do we not have a right to eat and drink? 5 9 10Do we not have a right to take along a 11believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the 12brothers of the Lord and 13Cephas? 6Or do only 14 15Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? 7Who at any time serves 16as a soldier at his own expense? Who 17plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not 18use the milk of the flock?

8I am not speaking these things 19according to 20human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses, “21You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about 22oxen, is He? 10Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, 23for our sake it was written, because 24the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops. 11 25If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we 26did not use this right, but we endure all things 27so that we will cause no hindrance to the 28gospel of Christ. 13 29Do you not know that those who 30perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share 31from the altar? 14So also 32the Lord directed those who proclaim the 33gospel to 34get their living from the gospel.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Cor 9:19; 10:29 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 9:1 Acts 14:14; Rom 1:1; 2 Cor 12:12; 1 Thess 2:6; 1 Tim 2:7; 2 Tim 1:11 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 9:1 Acts 9:3, 17; 18:9; 22:14, 18; 23:11; 1 Cor 15:8 ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Cor 3:6; 4:15 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 9:2 John 3:33; 2 Cor 3:2f ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 9:2 Acts 1:25 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it? ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 9:4 1 Cor 9:14; 1 Thess 2:6, 9; 2 Thess 3:8f ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it? ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 9:5 1 Cor 7:7f ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as wife ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 12:46 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 8:14; John 1:42 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of ↩
19. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Rom 3:5 ↩
20. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Lit man ↩
21. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
22. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 22:1-4; Prov 12:10 ↩
23. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Rom 4:23f ↩
24. 1 Corinthians 9:10 2 Tim 2:6 ↩
25. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14 ↩
26. 1 Corinthians 9:12 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18 ↩
27. 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12 ↩
28. 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
29. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Rom 6:16 ↩
30. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lev 6:16, 26; 7:6, 31ff; Num 5:9f; 18:8-20, 31; Deut 18:1 ↩
31. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lit with ↩
32. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
33. 1 Corinthians 9:14 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
34. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Luke 10:8; 1 Cor 9:4 ↩

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