{"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/kjv/1-corinthians/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:33:19.367Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Have we not power to eat and to drink?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and <i>as</i> the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Or saith he <i>it</i> altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, <i>this</i> is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If we have sown unto you spiritual things, <i>is it</i> a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"If others be partakers of <i>this</i> power over you, <i>are</i> not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live <i>of the things</i> of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for <i>it were</i> better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation <i>of the gospel</i> is committed unto me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"What is my reward then? <i>Verily</i> that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For though I be free from all <i>men</i>, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all <i>men</i>, that I might by all means save some."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with <i>you</i>."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they <i>do it</i> to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"But I keep under my body, and bring <i>it</i> into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 9 (KJV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 9](https://primebible.com/kjv/1-corinthians/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/1-corinthians/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}