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| 1st-Corinthians 9:1 | Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work in the Lord? | Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:2 | If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship. | If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:3 | That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me. | My answer to those who are judging me is this. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:4 | Have we not a right to claim food and drink? | Have we no right to take food and drink? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:5 | Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do and the Lord's brothers and Peter? | Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:6 | Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands? | Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:7 | What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk? | Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:8 | Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone? | Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:9 | For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." | For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:10 | Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that which comes as the result. | Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:11 | If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you? | If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:12 | If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ. | If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:13 | Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share with the altar? | Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:14 | In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News. | Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:15 | But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one. | But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:16 | If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas for me, if I fail to preach it! | For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:17 | And if I preach willingly, I receive my wages; but if against my will, a stewardship has nevertheless been entrusted to me. | But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:18 | What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher. | What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:19 | Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible. | For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:20 | To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law although I am not in order to win those who are under the Law; | And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:21 | to men without Law as if I were without Law although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law in order to win those who are without Law. | To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:22 | To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every one of these ways I may save some. | To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:23 | And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits. | And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:24 | Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty. | Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:25 | But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish. | And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown. |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:26 | That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air, | So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air: |
| 1st-Corinthians 9:27 | but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected. | But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval. |
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