\subsection{I Corinthians 9}
\VS{1} Am I not free? Am I not [an] apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus our Lord? Aren't you 
my work in the Lord? 
\VS{2} If I am not apostle to others, rather to you I 
am certainly; for you are my seal or apostleship in the Lord. 
\VS{3} This is 
my defense to those examining me. 
\VS{4} Don't we have authority to eat and drink? 
\VS{5} Don't we have authority to take [about] [a] sister, [a] wife, as do also 
the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and 
Cephas\footnote{another name for Peter}? 
\VS{6} Or don't I only and 
Barnabbas have authority to not be working? 
\VS{7} Whoever serves as soldier 
on his own wages? Who plants [a] vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who 
shepherds [a] flock and does not eat from the milk of the sheep? 
\VS{8} Don't I 
say these [things] according to men, or does the law also not say these [things]? 
\VS{9} For 
in the law of Moses it is written: You will not muzzle [the] threshing ox. 
Doesn't God care for the ox? 
\VS{10} Or does he say [it] entirely on our 
account? For on our account it was written, that: The [one] plowing ought to be 
plowing in hope, and the [one] threshing, in hope of partaking. 
\VS{11} If we 
sowed in you the spiritual [things], [is it a] big [thing] if we reap from you the fleshly? 
\VS{12} If others be partakers of this authority over you, [are] we not rather? But we 
have not used this authority, but bear everything in order that we not give 
anyone hindrance to the good-news of Christ. 
\VS{13} Do you not know that 
the [ones] working the temple [things] eat the [things] from the temple, those attending to the altar have [a] share in the altar? 
\VS{14} Thus the Lord also commanded to 
those proclaiming the good-news to zoe-live\fnZoe{} from the good-news. 
\VS{15} But I have used \negd{none} of these [things]. 
And I have not written these [things] in order that it thus come to pass for me. 
For it is better to me to die than my boasting be made empty. 
\VS{16} For if I good-news, it is not [a] boast for 
me. For necessity presses upon me, for woe to me if I do not good-news. 
\VS{17} For if willingly I practice these [things], I have [a] reward. But if 
unwillingly, [a] management is entrusted to me. 
\VS{18} What therefore is my 
reward? In order that good-newsing I may place the good-news without charge, 
that I not abuse my authority in the good-news. 
\VS{19} For I being free from all am enslaved to all, in order that I gain more. 
\VS{20} And to the 
Jews I became as [a] Jew, in order that I win Jews, to those under the law as 
under the law, not being myself under the law, 
\VS{21} to those without law 
as without law, not being without [the] law of God, but in [the] law of Christ, in order that I win those without [the] law; 
\VS{22} I became weak to the weak, in 
order that I win the weak; to everyone I am become everything, in order that 
I certainly win some. 
\VS{23} But I do everything on account of the 
good-news, in order that I become [a] co-partaker of it. 
\VS{24} Don't you know 
that all [those] running in the stadium run, but one receives the prize? Be thus 
running in order that you win. 
\VS{25} And everyone engaging in contest 
exercises self-control in everything, they on the one hand therefore in 
order that they receive [a] corruptible crown, but we [an] incorruptible. 
\VS{26} So I thus run, as not uncertainly, I thus box, not as beating [the] air, 
\VS{27} but I smite\footnote{means generally ``beat black and blue''} my body and 
enslave it, lest having proclaimed to others I myself become disqualified.