9:1
non sum liber non sum apostolus nonne Iesum Dominum nostrumvidi non opus meum vos estis in Domino

9:2
si aliis non sum apostolus sed tamen vobis sum namsignaculum apostolatus mei vos estis in Domino

9:3
mea defensio apud eos qui me interrogant haec est

9:4
numquid non habemus potestatem manducandi et bibendi

9:5
numquid non habemus potestatem sororem mulieremcircumducendi sicut et ceteri apostoli et fratres Domini etCephas

9:6
aut solus ego et Barnabas non habemus potestatem hocoperandi

9:7
quis militat suis stipendiis umquam quis plantat vineam etfructum eius non edit quis pascit gregem et de lacte gregis nonmanducat

9:8
numquid secundum hominem haec dico an et lex haec non dicit

9:9
scriptum est enim in lege Mosi non alligabis os bovitrituranti numquid de bubus cura est Deo

9:10
an propter nos utique dicit nam propter nos scripta suntquoniam debet in spe qui arat arare et qui triturat in spefructus percipiendi

9:11
si nos vobis spiritalia seminavimus magnum est si noscarnalia vestra metamus

9:12
si alii potestatis vestrae participes sunt non potius nossed non usi sumus hac potestate sed omnia sustinemus ne quodoffendiculum demus evangelio Christi

9:13
nescitis quoniam qui in sacrario operantur quae de sacrariosunt edunt qui altario deserviunt cum altario participantur

9:14
ita et Dominus ordinavit his qui evangelium adnuntiant deevangelio vivere

9:15
ego autem nullo horum usus sum non scripsi autem haec utita fiant in me bonum est enim mihi magis mori quam ut gloriammeam quis evacuet

9:16
nam si evangelizavero non est mihi gloria necessitas enimmihi incumbit vae enim mihi est si non evangelizavero

9:17
si enim volens hoc ago mercedem habeo si autem invitusdispensatio mihi credita est

9:18
quae est ergo merces mea ut evangelium praedicans sinesumptu ponam evangelium ut non abutar potestate mea inevangelio

9:19
nam cum liber essem ex omnibus omnium me servum feci utplures lucri facerem

9:20
et factus sum Iudaeis tamquam Iudaeus ut Iudaeos lucrarer

9:21
his qui sub lege sunt quasi sub lege essem cum ipse nonessem sub lege ut eos qui sub lege erant lucri facerem his quisine lege erant tamquam sine lege essem cum sine lege Dei nonessem sed in lege essem Christi ut lucri facerem eos qui sinelege erant

9:22
factus sum infirmis infirmus ut infirmos lucri faceremomnibus omnia factus sum ut omnes facerem salvos

9:23
omnia autem facio propter evangelium ut particeps eiusefficiar

9:24
nescitis quod hii qui in stadio currunt omnes quidemcurrunt sed unus accipit bravium sic currite ut conprehendatis

9:25
omnis autem qui in agone contendit ab omnibus se abstinetet illi quidem ut corruptibilem coronam accipiant nos autemincorruptam

9:26
ego igitur sic curro non quasi in incertum sic pugno nonquasi aerem verberans

9:27
sed castigo corpus meum et in servitutem redigo ne fortecum aliis praedicaverim ipse reprobus efficiar

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009:001
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?

009:002
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.

009:003
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

009:004
Have we not power to eat and to drink?

009:005
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?

009:006
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

009:007
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?

009:008
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

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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?

009:010
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.

009:011
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

009:012
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.

009:013
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?

009:014
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

009:015
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.

009:016
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!

009:017
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.

009:018
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.

009:019
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

009:020
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;

009:021
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.

009:022
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.

009:023
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

009:024
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

009:025
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.

009:026
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

009:027
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.

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