A Pattern of Self-Denial
1 Am aI not an apostle? Am I not free? bHave I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? cAre you not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are athe seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 aDo we have no1 right to eat and drink?
5 Do we have no right to take along1 a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, athe brothers of the Lord, and bCephas?
6 Or is it only Barnabas and I awho have no right to refrain from working?
7 Who ever agoes to war at his own expense? Who bplants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who ctends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, a“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about?
10 Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that ahe who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Interlinear Bible for 1 Corinthians 9:1:
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hotou (#3756)
apostolos (#652)
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eleutheros (#1658)
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horao (#3708)
Iesous (#2424)
Christos (#5547)
hemon (#2257)
kurios (#2962)
este (#2075)
hotou (#3756)
humeis (#5210)
mou (#3450)
ergon (#2041)
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