Sha'ul�s First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 9
{9:1} Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? 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 apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of
my apostleship 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
apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Kefa? {9:6} Or have only
Bar-Nabba 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 law also say the same thing? {9:9} For it is written in the law of
Moshe, "You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn." Is
it for the oxen that God cares, {9:10} or does he say it assuredly for
our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, 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 did the
Lord ordain 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 preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for
necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach 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 preach 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 Yehudim I became as a Yehudi, that I might gain Yehudim;
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 Good News's sake, 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, for fear that by any means, that after I have
preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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