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1 Corinthians 9:1-8

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1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord ? Are you not my work in the Lord ?
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord .
2 Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me.
4 Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
4 Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
5 Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
5 Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas ?
6 Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?
6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?
7 Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?
8 I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?
8 Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
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