| 9:1 | Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? |
| 9:2 | If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. |
| 9:3 | Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, |
| 9:4 | Have we not power to eat and to drink? |
| 9:5 | Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? |
| 9:6 | Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? |
| 9:7 | Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? |
| 9:8 | Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? |
| 9:9 | For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? |
| 9:10 | Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. |
| 9:11 | If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? |
| 9:12 | If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. |
| 9:13 | Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? |
| 9:13 | 你們豈不知為聖事勞碌的、就喫殿中的物麼．伺候祭壇的、就分領壇上的物麼。 |
| 9:13 | 你们岂不知为圣事劳碌的，就吃殿中的物麽。伺候祭坛的，就分领坛上的物麽。 |
| lev:6:16 | And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. |
| lev:6:26 | The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. |
| num:18:8 | And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. |
| num:18:10 | In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. |
| num:18:11 | And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. |
| num:18:12 | All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. |
| num:18:13 | And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. |
| num:18:19 | All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. |
| num:18:20 | And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. |
| num:18:31 | And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. |
| deu:18:1 | The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. |
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| 9:14 | Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. |
| 9:15 | But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. |
| 9:16 | For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! |
| 9:17 | For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. |
| 9:18 | What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. |
| 9:19 | For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. |
| 9:20 | And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; |
| 9:21 | To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. |
| 9:22 | To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. |
| 9:23 | And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. |
| 9:24 | Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. |
| 9:25 | And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. |
| 9:26 | I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: |
| 9:27 | But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. |
