1 CorinthiansChristianityAccepted ScriptureKoine GreekShare1 Corinthians 9Douay - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹1 Corinthians 11 Corinthians 21 Corinthians 31 Corinthians 41 Corinthians 51 Corinthians 61 Corinthians 71 Corinthians 81 Corinthians 91 Corinthians 101 Corinthians 111 Corinthians 121 Corinthians 131 Corinthians 141 Corinthians 151 Corinthians 16›1 Corinthians 9ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? 2And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3My defence with them that do examine me is this. 4Have not we power to eat and to drink? 5Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? 6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this? 7Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say; these things? 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? 10Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit. 11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things? 12If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar? 14So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel. 15But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die rather than that any man should make my glory void. 16For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. 17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me. 18What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. 20And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: 21To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law. 22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all. 23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof. 24Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain. 25And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. 26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air. 27But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway. ‹Previous chapter1 Corinthians 8Next chapter1 Corinthians 10›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Versions1 Corinthians 9 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain