, that he who plows should plow in hope, and
that he who threshes in hope should partake of it. [9:11]If we have
sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly
things? [9:12]And if others have this right, do we not have it more?
But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not
impede the gospel of Christ. [9:13]Know you not that those who perform
sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake
of the altar? [9:14]So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach
the gospel to live by the gospel. [9:15]But I have used none of these
things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done
to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my
boasting vain.

2 [9:16]For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a
necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.
[9:17]For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly,
I am intrusted with a stewardship. [9:18]What then is my reward? That
preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse
my right in the gospel. [9:19]For being free from all men, I have made
myself a servant of all, that I may gain more; [9:20]to the Jews I have
been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as
under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those
under the law; [9:21]to those without law, as without law, being not
without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those
without law; [9:22]to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain
the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in
all conditions; [9:23]and I do all things for the sake of the gospel,
that I may be a partaker of it.

3 [9:24]Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but
one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. [9:25]And every one
that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to
obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. [9:26]I therefore so
run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;
[9:27]but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest
having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

4 [10:1]For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our
fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, [10:2]and
all were baptized to Moses by the cloud and by the sea, [10:3]and all
eat