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1 Corinthians 9:1
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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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1 Corinthians 9:2
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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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1 Corinthians 9:3
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My defence to them that examine me is this.
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1 Corinthians 9:4
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Have
we no right to eat and to drink? |
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1 Corinthians 9:5
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Have we no right to lead about a wife that is
a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and
Cephas? |
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1 Corinthians 9:6
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Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right
to forbear working? |
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1 Corinthians 9:7
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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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1 Corinthians 9:8
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Do I speak these things after the manner of
men? or saith not the law also the same? |
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1 Corinthians 9:9
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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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1 Corinthians 9:10
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or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea,
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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1 Corinthians 9:11
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If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it
a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? |
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1 Corinthians 9:12
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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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1 Corinthians 9:13
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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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1 Corinthians 9:14
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Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim
the gospel should live of the gospel. |
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1 Corinthians 9:15
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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 glorifying void. |
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1 Corinthians 9:16
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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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1 Corinthians 9:17
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For if I do this of mine own will, I have a
reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. |
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1 Corinthians 9:18
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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 right in the gospel. |
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1 Corinthians 9:19
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For though I was free from all men, I brought
myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. |
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1 Corinthians 9:20
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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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1 Corinthians 9:21
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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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1 Corinthians 9:22
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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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1 Corinthians 9:23
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And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that
I may be a joint partaker thereof. |
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1 Corinthians 9:24
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Know ye not that they that run in a race run
all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. |
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1 Corinthians 9:25
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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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1 Corinthians 9:26
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I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight
I, as not beating the air: |
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1 Corinthians 9:27
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but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage:
lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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