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I Corinthians Chapter 9

I Corinthians
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I Corinthians

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In chapter 9 the apostle Paul urges believers to run their spiritual race with perseverance, not seeking honor or human approval, and to guard their hearts against false teachers. He warns against being swayed by empty boasting and stresses that true victory comes from integrity and love of God.

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(1) Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
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I Corinthians 9:2I Corinthians 9:3I Corinthians 1:1I Corinthians 15:8I Corinthians 15:9Acts 9:15Acts 13:2Acts 14:4Acts 22:14Acts 22:15Acts 16:17Acts 16:18

(2) If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
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John 6:27II Corinthians 3:1II Corinthians 3:2II Corinthians 3:3II Corinthians 12:12

(5) Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
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I Timothy 3:2I Timothy 4:3Titus 1:6Hebrews 13:4I Corinthians 7:15I Corinthians 7:39Song of Solomon 4:9Song of Solomon 4:10Song of Solomon 4:12Song of Solomon 5:1Song of Solomon 5:2Romans 16:1

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II Kings 4:26

(6) Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
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Acts 4:36Acts 11:22Acts 13:1Acts 13:2Acts 13:50Acts 14:12Acts 15:36Acts 15:37I Corinthians 4:11I Corinthians 4:12Acts 18:3Acts 20:34

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Ephesians 1:19

(7) Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
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II Corinthians 10:4II Corinthians 10:5I Timothy 1:18I Timothy 6:12II Timothy 2:3II Timothy 2:4II Timothy 4:7I Corinthians 3:6I Corinthians 3:7I Corinthians 3:8Deuteronomy 20:6Proverbs 27:18

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Ezekiel 34:8Romans 14:3Romans 14:6Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7Deuteronomy 22:9

(8) Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
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I Corinthians 7:40Romans 6:19I Thessalonians 2:13I Thessalonians 4:8I Corinthians 14:34Isaiah 8:20Romans 3:31

(9) 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?
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Deuteronomy 25:4I Timothy 5:18Numbers 22:28Numbers 22:29Numbers 22:30Numbers 22:31Numbers 22:32Numbers 22:33Numbers 22:34Numbers 22:35Deuteronomy 5:14Psalms 104:27

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Deuteronomy 25:4I Timothy 5:18Isaiah 1:3Exodus 22:1Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:35

(10) Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
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Matthew 24:22Romans 15:4II Corinthians 4:15I Corinthians 3:9Luke 17:7Luke 17:8John 4:35John 4:36John 4:37John 4:38II Timothy 2:6

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Romans 8:24Job 17:15Romans 4:18Romans 15:13Romans 15:4Romans 11:28

(11) If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
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Malachi 3:8Malachi 3:9Matthew 10:10Romans 15:27Galatians 6:6II Kings 5:13II Corinthians 11:15

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I Corinthians 15:44

(12) If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
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II Corinthians 11:20I Corinthians 9:2I Corinthians 4:14I Corinthians 4:15I Corinthians 9:15I Corinthians 9:18Acts 20:31Acts 20:32Acts 20:33Acts 20:34II Corinthians 11:7II Corinthians 11:8

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I Corinthians 9:18Ecclesiastes 8:8Daniel 8:24Luke 10:19John 10:18John 19:10

(13) Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
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I Corinthians 10:18Leviticus 6:16Leviticus 6:17Leviticus 6:18Leviticus 6:26Leviticus 7:6Leviticus 7:7Leviticus 7:8Numbers 5:9Numbers 5:10Numbers 18:8Numbers 18:9

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10Ezra 5:14Jeremiah 7:4

(14) Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
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I Corinthians 9:4Matthew 10:10Luke 10:7Galatians 6:6I Timothy 5:17

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I Corinthians 9:18I Corinthians 9:16Luke 4:18Romans 10:15Galatians 2:7Philippians 1:27

(15) But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
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I Corinthians 9:12I Corinthians 4:12Acts 8:3Acts 20:34I Thessalonians 2:9II Thessalonians 3:8II Corinthians 11:9II Corinthians 11:10II Corinthians 11:11II Corinthians 11:12II Corinthians 12:13II Corinthians 12:14

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II Chronicles 25:4II Kings 7:4Jonah 4:8Romans 14:8

(16) For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
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Romans 4:2Romans 15:17Jeremiah 1:17Jeremiah 20:7Jeremiah 20:9Amos 3:8Amos 7:15Acts 4:20Acts 9:6Acts 9:15Acts 26:16Acts 26:17

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I Corinthians 9:18Luke 4:18Romans 10:15I Corinthians 9:14Galatians 1:8Mark 16:15

(17) For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
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I Chronicles 28:9I Chronicles 29:5I Chronicles 29:9I Chronicles 29:14Nehemiah 11:2Isaiah 6:8II Corinthians 8:12Philemon 1:14I Peter 5:2I Peter 5:3I Peter 5:4I Corinthians 3:8

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I Corinthians 9:18Galatians 2:7

(18) What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
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I Corinthians 9:6I Corinthians 9:7I Corinthians 10:33II Corinthians 4:5II Corinthians 11:7II Corinthians 11:8II Corinthians 11:9II Corinthians 12:13II Corinthians 12:14II Corinthians 12:15II Corinthians 12:16II Corinthians 12:17

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I Corinthians 9:16I Corinthians 9:14Galatians 2:7Philippians 1:27I Corinthians 9:12Luke 4:18

(19) For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
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I Corinthians 9:1Galatians 5:1I Corinthians 10:33Matthew 20:26Matthew 20:27Matthew 20:28John 13:14John 13:15Romans 1:14Romans 15:2II Corinthians 4:5Galatians 5:13

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(20) And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
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Acts 16:3Acts 17:2Acts 17:3Acts 18:18Acts 21:20Acts 21:21Acts 21:22Acts 21:23Acts 21:24Acts 21:25Acts 21:26Romans 3:19

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Esther 8:17John 19:21Galatians 2:14Ezra 6:7Esther 8:9Esther 9:1

(21) To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
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Acts 15:28Acts 16:4Acts 21:25Romans 2:12Romans 2:14Galatians 2:3Galatians 2:4Galatians 2:12Galatians 2:13Galatians 2:14Galatians 3:2I Corinthians 7:19

(22) To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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I Corinthians 8:13Romans 15:1II Corinthians 11:29Galatians 6:1I Corinthians 10:33I Corinthians 9:19I Corinthians 7:16Romans 11:14

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II Corinthians 11:29I Corinthians 8:7Ephesians 4:11I Corinthians 8:9I Corinthians 9:20Romans 11:14

(23) And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
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I Corinthians 9:12Mark 8:35II Corinthians 2:4Galatians 2:5II Timothy 2:10I Corinthians 9:25I Corinthians 9:26I Corinthians 9:27II Timothy 2:6Hebrews 3:1Hebrews 3:14I Peter 5:1

(24) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
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Hosea 12:10Psalms 19:5Ecclesiastes 9:11Jeremiah 12:5I Corinthians 9:26Galatians 2:2Galatians 5:7Philippians 2:16Philippians 3:14II Timothy 4:7II Timothy 4:8Hebrews 12:1

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II Samuel 18:22II Samuel 18:23Joel 2:9Galatians 2:2Psalms 19:5Hebrews 12:1

(25) And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
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Ephesians 6:12Ephesians 6:13Ephesians 6:14Ephesians 6:15Ephesians 6:16Ephesians 6:17Ephesians 6:18I Timothy 6:12II Timothy 2:5II Timothy 4:7Hebrews 12:4Galatians 5:23

(26) I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
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II Corinthians 5:1II Corinthians 5:8Philippians 1:21II Timothy 1:12II Timothy 2:5Hebrews 4:1I Peter 5:1II Peter 1:10Matthew 11:12Luke 13:24Ephesians 6:12Colossians 1:29

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I Corinthians 9:24

(27) But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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I Corinthians 9:25I Corinthians 4:11I Corinthians 4:12I Corinthians 6:12I Corinthians 6:13I Corinthians 8:13Romans 8:13II Corinthians 6:4II Corinthians 6:5II Corinthians 11:27Colossians 3:5II Timothy 2:22

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I Corinthians 15:44Luke 11:34I Corinthians 12:12

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