| New American Standard Bible 1995 | King James Bible |
| 1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? | 1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? |
| 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. | 2If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. |
| 3My defense to those who examine me is this: | 3Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, |
| 4Do we not have a right to eat and drink? | 4Have we not power to eat and to drink? |
| 5Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? | 5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? |
| 6Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? | 6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? |
| 7Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock? | 7Who 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? |
| 8I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things? | 8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? |
| 9For it is written in the Law of Moses, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING." God is not concerned about oxen, is He? | 9For 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? |
| 10Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops. | 10Or 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. |
| 11If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? | 11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? |
| 12If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. | 12If 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. |
| 13Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar? | 13Do 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? |
| 14So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel. | 14Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. |
| 15But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one. | 15But 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. |
| 16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. | 16For 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! |
| 17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. | 17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. |
| 18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. | 18What 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. |
| 19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. | 19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. |
| 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; | 20And 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; |
| 21to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. | 21To 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. |
| 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. | 22To 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. |
| 23I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it. | 23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. |
| 24Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. | 24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. |
| 25Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. | 25And 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. |
| 26Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; | 26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: |
| 27but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. | 27But 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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