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Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:1 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 2, "text": "And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:2 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 3, "text": "My defence with them that do examine me is this.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:3 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 4, "text": "Have not we power to eat and to drink?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:4 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 5, "text": "Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say; these things?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die rather than that any man should make my glory void.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 9:27 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }