1 Corinthians 9
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1 Corinthians 9:11-18

111If 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 2did not use this right, but we endure all things 3so that we will cause no hindrance to the 4gospel of Christ. 135Do you not know that those who 6perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share 7from the altar? 14So also 8the Lord directed those who proclaim the 9gospel to 10get their living from the gospel.

15But I have 11used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make 12my boast an empty one! 16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for 13I am under compulsion; for woe to me if I do not preach 14the gospel. 17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a 15reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a 16commission nonetheless. 18What, then, is my 17reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel 18without charge, so as 19not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Corinthians 9:12 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Rom 6:16 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lev 6:16, 26; 7:6, 31ff; Num 5:9f; 18:8-20, 31; Deut 18:1 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lit with ↩
  8. 8. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Corinthians 9:14 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Luke 10:8; 1 Cor 9:4 ↩
  11. 11. 1 Corinthians 9:15 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:12, 18 ↩
  12. 12. 1 Corinthians 9:15 2 Cor 11:10 ↩
  13. 13. 1 Corinthians 9:16 Acts 9:15; Rom 1:14 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Corinthians 9:16 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 14, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  15. 15. 1 Corinthians 9:17 John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:18 ↩
  16. 16. 1 Corinthians 9:17 1 Cor 4:1; Gal 2:7; Eph 3:2; Phil 1:16; Col 1:25 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Corinthians 9:18 John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:17 ↩
  18. 18. 1 Corinthians 9:18 Acts 18:3; 2 Cor 11:7; 12:13 ↩
  19. 19. 1 Corinthians 9:18 1 Cor 7:31; 9:12 ↩

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