1 Corinthians 9
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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?

I not an.

1 Corinthians 9:2,3 If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for …

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of …

1 Corinthians 15:8,9 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time…

Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel …

Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said…

Acts 14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the …

Acts 22:14,15 And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should …

Acts 16:17,18 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the …

Romans 1:1,5 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated …

Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the …

2 Corinthians 11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very most chief apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:11,12 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought …

Galatians 1:1,15-17 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, …

Galatians 2:7,8 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision …

1 Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the …

2 Timothy 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher …

Titus 1:1-3 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according …

am I not free.

1 Corinthians 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant …

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us …

have.

1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

Acts 9:3,5,17 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined …

Acts 18:9 Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, …

Acts 22:6-8,14-21 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come near …

Acts 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good …

Acts 26:16-18 But rise, and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose…

are.

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you…

Acts 18:8-11 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord …

2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you …

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.
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
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?

to lead.

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats…

Titus 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children …

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators …

a sister.

1 Corinthians 7:15,39 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister …

Songs 4:9,10,12 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished …

Songs 5:1,2 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my …

Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church …

1 Timothy 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

wife. or, woman. the brethren.

Matthew 12:46-50 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers …

Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and …

Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, …

Luke 6:15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,

John 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his …

Acts 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with …

Galatians 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

Cephas.

1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you said, I am of Paul; and I of …

Matthew 8:14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother …

Mark 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and immediately they …

John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, …

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
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?
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
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?
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.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
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.
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?
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
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.
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!
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.

if I.

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

1 Chronicles 29:5,9,14 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, …

Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves …

Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and …

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …

Philemon 1:14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should …

1 Peter 5:2-4 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

have.

1 Corinthians 3:8,14 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall …

Matthew 10:41 He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive …

against.

Exodus 4:13,14 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray you, by the hand of him whom …

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name…

Ezekiel 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, …

Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, …

Jonah 4:1-3 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry…

Malachi 1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? …

dispensation. See on ver.

1 Corinthians 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity …

1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards …

Matthew 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom …

Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision …

Ephesians 3:2-8 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is …

Philippians 1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

Colossians 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God …

1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, …

1 Timothy 1:11-13 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed …

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.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

I be.

1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ …

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us …

I made.

1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, …

Matthew 20:26-28 But it shall not be so among you: but whoever will be great among …

John 13:14,15 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also …

Romans 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the …

Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.

2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves …

Galatians 5:13 For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty …

that.

1 Corinthians 9:20-22 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to …

1 Corinthians 7:16 For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? …

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.

Matthew 18:15 Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell …

Romans 11:14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, …

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them: for …

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may …

James 5:19,20 Brothers, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him…

1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, …

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;
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.
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.
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
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.

striveth.

Ephesians 6:12-18 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, …

1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto …

2 Timothy 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except …

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Hebrews 12:4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

temperate.

Galatians 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in …

2 Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience …

but.

1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this …

2 Timothy 4:8 From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which …

Hebrews 12:28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, …

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, …

1 Peter 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not …

1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown …

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil …

Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man …

Revelation 4:4,10 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and on the …

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
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.

I keep.

1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. …

1 Corinthians 4:11,12 Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, …

1 Corinthians 6:12,13 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all …

1 Corinthians 8:13 Why, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while …

Romans 8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through …

2 Corinthians 6:4,5 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in …

2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, …

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, …

2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, …

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain …

and.

Romans 6:18,19 Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness…

lest.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not …

Psalm 50:16 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, …

Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom …

Luke 12:45-47 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; …

Luke 13:26,27 Then shall you begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in your presence, …

2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following …

a castaway.

Jeremiah 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose …

Acts 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which …

2 Corinthians 13:5,6 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. …

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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