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| [1]Am I not a free man? Or, am I not a legate? Or, have I not seen Jesus Messiah our Lord? Or, have ye not been my work in my Lord? |
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| [2]And if I have not been a legate to others, yet I have been so to you; and ye are the seal of my legateship. |
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| [3]And [my] apology to my judgers, is this: |
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| [4]Have we not authority, to eat and to drink? |
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| [5]Or have we not authority to carry about with us a sister as a wife; just as the other legates, and the brothers of our Lord, and as Cephas? |
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| [6]Or I only, and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear labor? |
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| [7]Who, that serveth in war, [doth so] at his own expense? Or who, that planteth a vineyard, eateth not of its fruits? Or who, that tendeth sheep, eateth not of the milk of his flocks? |
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| [8]Is it as a man, I say these things? Behold, the law also saith them. |
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| [9]For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that thresheth. Hath God regard for oxen? |
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| [10]But manifest it is, for whose sake he said it. And indeed, for our sakes it was written: because the plougher ought to plough in hope, and the thresher in hope of fruit. |
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| [11]If we have sowed among you the things of the Spirit, is it a great matter, if we reap from you the things of the body? |
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| [12]And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah. |
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| [13]Know ye not, that they who serve in a temple, are fed from the temple? And they who serve at the altar, participate with the altar? |
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| [14]Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel. |
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| [15]But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying. |
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| [16]For while I preach, I have no [ground of] glorying; because necessity is laid upon me, and woe to me, if I preach not. |
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| [17]For if I do this voluntarily, there is a reward for me: but if involuntarily, a stewardship is intrusted to me. |
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| [18]What then is my reward? [It is,] that when I preach, I make the announcement of the Messiah without cost, and use not the prerogative given me in the gospel. |
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| [19]Being free from them all, I have made myself servant to every man; that I might gain many: |
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| [20]and with the Jews, I was as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; and with those under the law, I was as under the law, that I might gain them who are under the law; |
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| [21]and to those who have not the law, I was as without the law, (although I am not without law to God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I might gain them that are without the law. |
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| [22]I was with the weak, as weak, that I might gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I might vivify every one. |
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| [23]And this I do, that I may participate in the announcement. |
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| [24]Know ye not that they who run in the stadium, run all of them; yet it is one who gaineth the victory. Run ye, so as to attain. |
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| [25]For every one who engageth in the contest, restraineth his desires in every thing. And they run, to obtain a crown that perisheth; but we, one that perisheth not. |
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| [26]I therefore so run, not as for something unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling against air; |
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| [27]but I subdue my body, and reduce it to servitude; lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a reprobate. |
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