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