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New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Corinthians 9:3-18

3My defense to those who examine me is this: 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 78Cephas? 6Or do only 910Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from 11working? 7Who at any time serves 12as a soldier at his own expense? Who 13plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not 14consume some of the milk of the flock?

8I am not just asserting these things 15according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “16You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about 17oxen, is He? 10Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written 18for our sake, because 19the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops. 1120If 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 21did not use this right, but we endure all things 22so that we will cause no hindrance to the 23gospel of Christ. 1324Do you not know that those who 25perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share 26from the altar? 14So also 27the Lord directed those who proclaim the 28gospel to 29get their living from the gospel.

15But I have 30used 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 31my boast an empty one! 16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for 32I am under compulsion; for woe to me if I do not preach 33the gospel. 17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a 34reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a 35commission nonetheless. 18What, then, is my 36reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel 37without charge, so as 38not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

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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 a wife ↩
  6. 6. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 12:46 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s Aramaic name ↩
  8. 8. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 8:14; John 1:42 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
  10. 10. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
  11. 11. 1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves ↩
  12. 12. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
  13. 13. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from ↩
  15. 15. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Rom 3:5 ↩
  16. 16. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 22:1-4; Prov 12:10 ↩
  18. 18. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Rom 4:23f ↩
  19. 19. 1 Corinthians 9:10 2 Tim 2:6 ↩
  20. 20. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14 ↩
  21. 21. 1 Corinthians 9:12 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18 ↩
  22. 22. 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12 ↩
  23. 23. 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  24. 24. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Rom 6:16 ↩
  25. 25. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lev 6:16, 26; 7:6, 31ff; Num 5:9f; 18:8-20, 31; Deut 18:1 ↩
  26. 26. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Lit with ↩
  27. 27. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
  28. 28. 1 Corinthians 9:14 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  29. 29. 1 Corinthians 9:14 Luke 10:8; 1 Cor 9:4 ↩
  30. 30. 1 Corinthians 9:15 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:12, 18 ↩
  31. 31. 1 Corinthians 9:15 2 Cor 11:10 ↩
  32. 32. 1 Corinthians 9:16 Acts 9:15; Rom 1:14 ↩
  33. 33. 1 Corinthians 9:16 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 14, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
  34. 34. 1 Corinthians 9:17 John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:18 ↩
  35. 35. 1 Corinthians 9:17 1 Cor 4:1; Gal 2:7; Eph 3:2; Phil 1:16; Col 1:25 ↩
  36. 36. 1 Corinthians 9:18 John 4:36; 1 Cor 3:8; 9:17 ↩
  37. 37. 1 Corinthians 9:18 Acts 18:3; 2 Cor 11:7; 12:13 ↩
  38. 38. 1 Corinthians 9:18 1 Cor 7:31; 9:12 ↩

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