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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3This is my defense to those who would examine me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Do we not have the right to eat and drink? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. |
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