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1 Corinthians 9 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:1 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:2 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:3 - My defence to them that examine me is this.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:4 - Have we no right to eat and to drink?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:5 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:6 - Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:7 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:8 - Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:9 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:10 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:11 - If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:12 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:13 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:14 - Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:15 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:16 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:17 - For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18 - 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 right in the gospel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:20 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:21 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:22 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:23 - And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:24 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:25 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:26 - I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:27 - but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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