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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 9:4-27

412Do we not have a right to eat and drink? 534Do we not have a right to take along a 5believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the 6brothers of the Lord and 7Cephas? 6Or do only 89Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? 7Who at any time serves 10as a soldier at his own expense? Who 11plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not 12use the milk of the flock?

8I am not speaking these things 13according to 14human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses, “15You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about 16oxen, is He? 10Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, 17for our sake it was written, because 18the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops. 1119If 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 20did not use this right, but we endure all things 21so that we will cause no hindrance to the 22gospel of Christ. 1323Do you not know that those who 24perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share 25from the altar? 14So also 26the Lord directed those who proclaim the 27gospel to 28get their living from the gospel.

15But I have 29used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make 30my boast an empty one. 16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for 31I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach 32the gospel. 17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a 33reward; but if against my will, I have a 34stewardship entrusted to me. 18What then is my 35reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel 36without charge, so as 37not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

19For though I am 38free from all men, I have made myself 39a slave to all, so that I may 40win more. 2041To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under 42the Law, as under 43the Law though 44not being myself under 45the Law, so that I might win those who are under 46the Law; 21to those who are 47without law, 48as without law, though not being without the law of God but 49under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22To the 50weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become 51all things to all men, 52so that I may by all means save some. 23I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

2453Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives 54the prize? 55Run in such a way that you may win. 25Everyone who 56competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable 57wreath, but we an imperishable. 26Therefore I 58run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not 59beating the air; 27but I 60discipline 61my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

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  1. 1. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it? ↩
  2. 2. 1 Corinthians 9:4 1 Cor 9:14; 1 Thess 2:6, 9; 2 Thess 3:8f ↩
  3. 3. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it? ↩
  4. 4. 1 Corinthians 9:5 1 Cor 7:7f ↩
  5. 5. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as wife ↩
  6. 6. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 12:46 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 8:14; John 1:42 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
  9. 9. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
  11. 11. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
  12. 12. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of ↩
  13. 13. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Rom 3:5 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Lit man ↩
  15. 15. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
  16. 16. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 22:1-4; Prov 12:10 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Rom 4:23f ↩
  18. 18. 1 Corinthians 9:10 2 Tim 2:6 ↩
  19. 19. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14 ↩
  20. 20. 1 Corinthians 9:12 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18 ↩
  21. 21. 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12 ↩
  22. 22. 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  23. 23. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Rom 6:16 ↩
  24. 24. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lev 6:16, 26; 7:6, 31ff; Num 5:9f; 18:8-20, 31; Deut 18:1 ↩
  25. 25. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lit with ↩
  26. 26. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
  27. 27. 1 Corinthians 9:14 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  28. 28. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Luke 10:8; 1 Cor 9:4 ↩
  29. 29. 1 Corinthians 9:15 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:12, 18 ↩
  30. 30. 1 Corinthians 9:15 2 Cor 11:10 ↩
  31. 31. 1 Corinthians 9:16 Acts 9:15; Rom 1:14 ↩
  32. 32. 1 Corinthians 9:16 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 14, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  33. 33. 1 Corinthians 9:17 John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:18 ↩
  34. 34. 1 Corinthians 9:17 1 Cor 4:1; Gal 2:7; Eph 3:2; Phil 1:16; Col 1:25 ↩
  35. 35. 1 Corinthians 9:18 John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:17 ↩
  36. 36. 1 Corinthians 9:18 Acts 18:3; 2 Cor 11:7; 12:13 ↩
  37. 37. 1 Corinthians 9:18 1 Cor 7:31; 9:12 ↩
  38. 38. 1 Corinthians 9:19 1 Cor 9:1 ↩
  39. 39. 1 Corinthians 9:19 2 Cor 4:5; Gal 5:13 ↩
  40. 40. 1 Corinthians 9:19 Matt 18:15; 1 Pet 3:1 ↩
  41. 41. 1 Corinthians 9:20 Acts 16:3; 21:23-26; Rom 11:14 ↩
  42. 42. 1 Corinthians 9:20 Or law ↩
  43. 43. 1 Corinthians 9:20 Or law ↩
  44. 44. 1 Corinthians 9:20 Gal 2:19 ↩
  45. 45. 1 Corinthians 9:20 Or law ↩
  46. 46. 1 Corinthians 9:20 Or law ↩
  47. 47. 1 Corinthians 9:21 Rom 2:12, 14 ↩
  48. 48. 1 Corinthians 9:21 Gal 2:3; 3:2 ↩
  49. 49. 1 Corinthians 9:21 1 Cor 7:22; Gal 6:2 ↩
  50. 50. 1 Corinthians 9:22 Rom 14:1; 15:1; 2 Cor 11:29 ↩
  51. 51. 1 Corinthians 9:22 1 Cor 10:33 ↩
  52. 52. 1 Corinthians 9:22 Rom 11:14 ↩
  53. 53. 1 Corinthians 9:24 1 Cor 9:13 ↩
  54. 54. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Phil 3:14; Col 2:18 ↩
  55. 55. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Gal 2:2; 2 Tim 4:7; Heb 12:1 ↩
  56. 56. 1 Corinthians 9:25 Eph 6:12; 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Tim 2:5; 4:7 ↩
  57. 57. 1 Corinthians 9:25 2 Tim 4:8; James 1:12; 1 Pet 5:4; Rev 2:10; 3:11 ↩
  58. 58. 1 Corinthians 9:26 Gal 2:2; 2 Tim 4:7; Heb 12:1 ↩
  59. 59. 1 Corinthians 9:26 1 Cor 14:9 ↩
  60. 60. 1 Corinthians 9:27 Lit bruise ↩
  61. 61. 1 Corinthians 9:27 Rom 8:13 ↩

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