NITHYAM SONGS1 Corinthians 9
World English Bible (WEB) • 27 verses
1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3My defense to those who examine me is this:
Related2 Corinthians 13:5 · 1 Corinthians 14:37 · 2 Corinthians 10:7-8 · Philippians 1:17 · 2 Corinthians 13:3 · 2 Corinthians 12:16-19
4Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Related1 Thessalonians 2:6 · 2 Thessalonians 3:8-9 · Luke 10:7 · Galatians 6:6 · 1 Corinthians 9:7-14 · 1 Thessalonians 2:9
5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Related2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 · Acts 13:1-2 · Acts 4:36 · Acts 18:3 · 1 Thessalonians 2:9 · Acts 14:12
7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
RelatedProverbs 27:18 · Deuteronomy 20:6 · 2 Timothy 2:3-4 · 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 · 1 Timothy 1:18 · Jeremiah 23:2-3
8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
Related1 Thessalonians 4:8 · Romans 6:19 · 1 Corinthians 7:40 · 1 Thessalonians 2:13 · 1 Corinthians 14:34 · Romans 3:31
9For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
RelatedDeuteronomy 25:4 · 1 Timothy 5:18 · Psalms 104:27 · Jonah 4:11 · Psalms 145:15-16 · Luke 12:24-28
10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
Related2 Timothy 2:6 · Romans 15:4 · Romans 4:23-24 · John 4:35-38 · 1 Corinthians 3:9 · 2 Corinthians 4:15
11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
RelatedRomans 15:27 · Galatians 6:6 · 2 Corinthians 11:15 · Matthew 10:10 · 2 Kings 5:13 · Malachi 3:8-9
12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
Related1 Corinthians 9:15 · 2 Corinthians 11:12 · 1 Corinthians 9:18 · 2 Corinthians 11:7-10 · 1 Thessalonians 2:6-9 · 1 Corinthians 9:2
13Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
RelatedNumbers 18:8-20 · Leviticus 6:26 · Numbers 5:9-10 · Deuteronomy 18:1-5 · 1 Samuel 2:28 · 1 Corinthians 10:18
14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
Related1 Thessalonians 2:9 · 2 Thessalonians 3:8 · 1 Corinthians 9:12 · Acts 20:34 · Acts 20:24 · 2 Corinthians 11:9-12
16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
RelatedGalatians 2:7 · 1 Corinthians 3:8 · Matthew 10:41 · Colossians 1:25 · 1 Chronicles 28:9 · Isaiah 6:8
18What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
Related2 Corinthians 11:7-9 · 2 Thessalonians 3:8-9 · 1 Corinthians 10:33 · 1 Corinthians 8:9 · 1 Thessalonians 2:6 · 2 Corinthians 12:13-18
19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
RelatedGalatians 5:13 · Matthew 18:15 · James 5:19-20 · 1 Corinthians 10:33 · 1 Timothy 4:16 · Matthew 20:26-28
20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
RelatedRomans 2:12 · Galatians 3:2 · Romans 2:14 · Matthew 5:17-20 · 1 Corinthians 7:19-22 · Titus 2:2-12
22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
Related1 Corinthians 10:33 · Romans 15:1 · 1 Corinthians 9:19 · Romans 11:14 · Galatians 6:1 · 1 Corinthians 8:13
23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Related2 Timothy 2:10 · 1 Corinthians 9:25-27 · Mark 8:35 · Hebrews 3:14 · Galatians 2:5 · 1 John 1:3
24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
RelatedPhilippians 3:14 · Hebrews 12:1 · 2 Timothy 4:7-8 · Revelation 3:11 · Philippians 2:16 · Galatians 5:7
25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Related2 Timothy 2:5 · Revelation 2:10 · 1 Timothy 6:12 · 2 Timothy 4:7-8 · James 1:12 · Revelation 3:11
26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
Related2 Timothy 2:5 · 2 Peter 1:10 · Philippians 1:21 · Colossians 1:29 · 2 Timothy 1:12 · Luke 13:24
27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
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