{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/1-corinthians/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T19:04:50.590Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":9,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My defence to them that examine me is this."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Have we no right to eat and to drink?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 9 (ASV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 9](https://primebible.com/asv/1-corinthians/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/1-corinthians/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}