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Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 9
{9:1} Am I not free? Am I not an emissary? Haven't I seen Yeshua the
Messiah, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord? {9:2} If to others
I am not an emissary, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal
of my office of emissary in the Lord. {9:3} My defense to those who
examine me is this. {9:4} Have we no right to eat and to drink? {9:5}
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the
rest of the emissaries, and the brothers of the Lord, and
[1>]Kefa[<1]? {9:6} Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
{9:7} What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a
vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and
doesn't drink from the flock's milk? {9:8} Do I speak these things
according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the Torah also say the same
thing? {9:9} For it is written in the Torah of Moses, "You shall not
muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain."[2] Is it for the oxen
that God cares, {9:10} or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes,
it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in
hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope. {9:11}
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap
your fleshly things? {9:12} If others partake of this right over you,
don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear
all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of
Messiah. {9:13} Don't you know that those who serve around sacred
things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the
altar have their portion with the altar? {9:14} Even so the Lord
ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the
Good News. {9:15} But I have used none of these things, and I don't
write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would
rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void. {9:16} For
if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for
necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't proclaim the
Good News. {9:17} For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward.
But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
{9:18} What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the Good News, I
may present the Good News of Messiah without charge, so as not to
abuse my authority in the Good News. {9:19} For though I was free from
all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the
more. {9:20} To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to
those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those
who are under the law; {9:21} to those who are without law, as without
law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah),
that I might win those who are without law. {9:22} To the weak I
became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things
to all men, that I may by all means save some. {9:23} Now I do this
for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
{9:24} Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one
receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. {9:25} Every man
who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now
they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
{9:26} I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like
that, as not beating the air, {9:27} but I beat my body and bring it
into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I
myself should be rejected.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:5} Greek: Cephas
[2] {9:9} Deuteronomy 25:4
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