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For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:15 ESV

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:14 ESV

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:13 ESV

Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?

over 9 years ago

If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:11 ESV

If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:10 ESV

Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:9 ESV

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:8 ESV

Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:6 ESV

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:5 ESV

Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:4 ESV

Do we not have the right to eat and drink?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:3 ESV

This is my defense to those who would examine me.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:2 ESV

If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:1 ESV

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:12 ESV

Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:11 ESV

And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:9-10 ESV

But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

over 9 years ago

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