{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "1-corinthians", "chapter": 9 }, "data": { "n": 9, "bookSlug": "1-corinthians", "bookCode": "1CO", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "1CO-9:1", "verseRef": "1CO.9.1", "text": "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "1CO-9:2", "verseRef": "1CO.9.2", "text": "If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "1CO-9:3", "verseRef": "1CO.9.3", "text": "My defence to them that examine me is this." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "1CO-9:4", "verseRef": "1CO.9.4", "text": "Have we no right to eat and to drink?" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "1CO-9:5", "verseRef": "1CO.9.5", "text": "Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "1CO-9:6", "verseRef": "1CO.9.6", "text": "Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "1CO-9:7", "verseRef": "1CO.9.7", "text": "What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "1CO-9:8", "verseRef": "1CO.9.8", "text": "Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?" },{ "n": 9, "refId": "1CO-9:9", "verseRef": "1CO.9.9", "text": "For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth," },{ "n": 10, "refId": "1CO-9:10", "verseRef": "1CO.9.10", "text": "or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "1CO-9:11", "verseRef": "1CO.9.11", "text": "If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "1CO-9:12", "verseRef": "1CO.9.12", "text": "If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "1CO-9:13", "verseRef": "1CO.9.13", "text": "Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "1CO-9:14", "verseRef": "1CO.9.14", "text": "Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "1CO-9:15", "verseRef": "1CO.9.15", "text": "But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "1CO-9:16", "verseRef": "1CO.9.16", "text": "For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "1CO-9:17", "verseRef": "1CO.9.17", "text": "For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "1CO-9:18", "verseRef": "1CO.9.18", "text": "What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "1CO-9:19", "verseRef": "1CO.9.19", "text": "For though I was free from all [men,] I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "1CO-9:20", "verseRef": "1CO.9.20", "text": "And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "1CO-9:21", "verseRef": "1CO.9.21", "text": "to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "1CO-9:22", "verseRef": "1CO.9.22", "text": "To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "1CO-9:23", "verseRef": "1CO.9.23", "text": "And I do all things for the gospel`s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "1CO-9:24", "verseRef": "1CO.9.24", "text": "Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "1CO-9:25", "verseRef": "1CO.9.25", "text": "And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "1CO-9:26", "verseRef": "1CO.9.26", "text": "I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "1CO-9:27", "verseRef": "1CO.9.27", "text": "but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/1-corinthians/chapters/9", "book": "/v1/library/books/1-corinthians/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/1-corinthians/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }