{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "1 Corinthians",
 "chapter": 9,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Have we not power to eat and to drink?"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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!"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "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;"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "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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