| 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? |
| 9:7 | 有誰當兵、自備糧餉呢．有誰栽種葡萄園、不喫園裡的果子呢．有誰牧養牛羊、不喫牛羊的奶呢。 |
| 9:7 | 有谁当兵，自备粮饷呢。有谁栽葡萄园，不吃园里的果子呢。有谁牧养牛羊，不吃牛羊的奶呢。 |
| 2ti:2:3 | Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. |
| 2ti:2:4 | No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. |
| 1co:3:6 | I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. |
| 1co:3:7 | So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. |
| 1co:3:8 | Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. |
| deu:20:6 | And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. |
| son:8:11 | Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. |
| son:8:12 | My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. |
| pro:27:18 | Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. |
| 1co: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? |
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| 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? |
| 9:14 | 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. |
