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| 1 Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? |
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| 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. |
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| 3 My defence to them that examine me is this. |
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| 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink? |
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| 5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, even the brethren of the Lord, even Cephas? |
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| 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working? |
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| 7 What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? |
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| 8 Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? |
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| 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth, |
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| 10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking. |
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| 11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? |
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| 12 If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. |
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| 13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar? |
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| 14 Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. |
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| 15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. |
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| 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. |
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| 17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. |
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| 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my authority in the gospel. |
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| 19 For though I be free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. |
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| 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; |
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| 21 to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. |
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| 22 to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. |
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| 23 And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof. |
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| 24 Know ye not that they that run in a race all run, but only one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. |
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| 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. |
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| 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: |
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| 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should become disapproved. |
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