New American Standard Bible 2020

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 I am not an apostle to others, 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 13 14Cephas? 6Or do only 15 16Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from 17working? 7Who at any time serves 18as a soldier at his own expense? Who 19plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not 20consume some of the milk of the flock?

8I am not just asserting these things 21according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “22You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about 23oxen, is He? 10Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written 24for our sake, because 25the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops. 11 26If 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 27did not use this right, but we endure all things 28so that we will cause no hindrance to the 29gospel of Christ. 13 30Do you not know that those who 31perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share 32from the altar? 14So also 33the Lord directed those who proclaim the 34gospel to 35get 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 a wife ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 12:46 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s Aramaic name ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 8:14; John 1:42 ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
19. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
20. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from ↩
21. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Rom 3:5 ↩
22. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
23. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 22:1-4; Prov 12:10 ↩
24. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Rom 4:23f ↩
25. 1 Corinthians 9:10 2 Tim 2:6 ↩
26. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14 ↩
27. 1 Corinthians 9:12 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18 ↩
28. 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12 ↩
29. 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
30. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Rom 6:16 ↩
31. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lev 6:16, 26; 7:6, 31ff; Num 5:9f; 18:8-20, 31; Deut 18:1 ↩
32. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lit with ↩
33. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
34. 1 Corinthians 9:14 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
35. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Luke 10:8; 1 Cor 9:4 ↩

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