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Am I not free to do as I will? Am I not an apostle, have I not seen our Lord Jesus Christ? Are not you yourselves my achievement in the Lord?✻ (1 Corinthians 9, 1)
To others I may not be an apostle, but to you at least I am; why, you are the sign-manual of my apostleship in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 9, 2)
nay, have we not the right to travel about with a woman who is a sister, as the other apostles do, as the Lord’s brethren do, and Cephas?✻ (1 Corinthians 9, 5)
This is not a plea of man’s invention; the law declares it. (1 Corinthians 9, 8)
When we read in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn, must we suppose that God is making provision for oxen?✻ (1 Corinthians 9, 9)
Here are we, who have sown in you a spiritual harvest; is it much to ask, that we should reap from you a temporal harvest in return? (1 Corinthians 9, 11)
If others claim a share of such rights over you, have not we a better claim still? And yet we have never availed ourselves of those rights; we bear every hardship, sooner than hinder the preaching of Christ’s gospel.✻ (1 Corinthians 9, 12)
You know, surely, that those who do the temple’s work live on the temple’s revenues; that those who preside at the altar share the altar’s offerings. (1 Corinthians 9, 13)
And so it is that the Lord has bidden the heralds of the gospel live by preaching the gospel. (1 Corinthians 9, 14)
Yet I have not availed myself of any such right.I am not writing thus in the hope of being treated otherwise; I would rather die than have this boast taken from me. (1 Corinthians 9, 15)
When I preach the gospel, I take no credit for that; I act under constraint; it would go hard with me indeed if I did not preach the gospel. (1 Corinthians 9, 16)
I can claim a reward for what I do of my own choice; but when I act under constraint, I am only executing a commission. (1 Corinthians 9, 17)
