law also say these
things? (9)For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not
muzzle an ox while treading out the grain. Is it for the oxen that God
cares? (10)Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For, for our
sakes it was written; that he who plows ought to plow in hope; and he
who threshes, in hope of partaking. (11)If we sowed for you, the
things that are spiritual, is it a great thing if we shall reap your
carnal things? (12)If others partake of this power over you, do not we
still more? But we used not this power; but we bear all things, that
we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

(13)Do ye not know that they who minister about the holy things eat of
the temple, and they who wait at the altar partake with the altar?
(14)So also did the Lord appoint to those who preach the gospel, to
live by the gospel. (15)But I have used none of these things; and I
wrote not these things, that it should be so done to me; for it were
better for me to die, than that any one should make my glorying void.
(16)For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a
necessity is laid upon me; for, woe is to me, if I preach not the
gospel! (17)For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if
unwillingly, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

(18)What then is my reward? That, in preaching the gospel, I may make
the gospel without charge, that I use not to the full my power in the
gospel. (19)For being free from all men, I made myself servant to all,
that I might gain the more. (20)And to the Jews I became as a Jew,
that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law, not being
myself under law, that I might gain those under law; (21)to those
without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under
law to Christ), that I might gain those without law. (22)To the weak I
became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things
to all, that I may by all means save some. (23)And all things I do for
the gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with
others[9:23].

(24)Know ye not that they who run in a race, all indeed run, but one
receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (25)And every one who
contends for the prize is temperate in all things; they indeed to
obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. (26)I therefore
so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not beating the air.
(27)But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest
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