King James Version · full chapter
1 Corinthians 9
27 verses · King James Version
- 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?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:1
- 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:2
- 3Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:3
- 4Have we not power to eat and to drink?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:4
- 5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:5
- 6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:6
- 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?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:7
- 8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:8
- 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?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:9
- 10Or saith he altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:10
- 11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:11
- 12If others be partakers of power over you, not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:12
- 13Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:13
- 14Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:14
- 15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:15
- 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!Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:16
- 17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed unto me.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:17
- 18What is my reward then? that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:18
- 19For though I be free from all yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:19
- 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;Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:20
- 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.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:21
- 22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all that I might by all means save some.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:22
- 23And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof withCompare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:23
- 24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:24
- 25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:25
- 26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:26
- 27But I keep under my body, and bring into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.Compare translations of 1 Corinthians 9:27