The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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1 Corinthians 9
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 9:3
Mine
answer to them that do
examine
me
is
this,
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- 9:4 Have
we
not
power to
eat
and to
drink ?
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- 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?
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- 9:6
Or
I
only
and
Barnabas,
have
not
we
power to
forbear
working ?
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- 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?
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- 9:8 Say
I these
things
as
a
man?
or
saith
not the
law the
same
also?
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 9:11
If
we have
sown unto
you spiritual
things, is it a great
thing
if
we shall
reap
your carnal
things?
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- 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.
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- 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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- 9:14
Even
so
hath the
Lord
ordained that they which
preach the
gospel should
live
of the
gospel.
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- 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.
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- 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 !
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 9:19
For though I
be
free
from
all men, yet have I
made
myself
servant unto
all,
that I might
gain the
more.
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- 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;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 9:23
And
this I
do
for the
gospel's
sake,
that I might
be
partaker
thereof
with you.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 9:26
I
therefore
so
run,
not
as
uncertainly;
so fight
I,
not
as one that
beateth the
air:
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- 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.
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