1Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

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Acts 9:17, Acts 9:17, 1 Corinthians 3:6, 1 Timothy 2:7, Acts 9:3

2And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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2 Corinthians 12:12, 2 Corinthians 12:12, John 6:27, 2 Corinthians 3:1, 2 Corinthians 3:3

3My defence with them that do examine me is this.

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1 Corinthians 14:37, 2 Corinthians 10:7, 2 Corinthians 10:8, 2 Corinthians 13:10, 2 Corinthians 13:3

4Have not we power to eat and to drink?

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1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8

5Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

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John 1:42, John 1:42, Matthew 8:14, Matthew 8:14, Galatians 1:19

6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?

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2 Thessalonians 3:7, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:7, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Acts 13:1

7Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

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Proverbs 27:18, Proverbs 27:18, Deuteronomy 20:6, Deuteronomy 20:6, 2 Timothy 2:3

8Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say; these things?

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1 Corinthians 7:40, Romans 3:31, Romans 6:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Isaiah 8:20

9For 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?

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Deuteronomy 25:4, Deuteronomy 25:4, 1 Timothy 5:18, 1 Timothy 5:18, Psalms 104:27

10Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.

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Romans 15:4, 2 Timothy 2:6, Romans 15:4, 2 Timothy 2:6, Romans 4:23

11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

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Romans 15:27, Romans 15:27, Galatians 6:6, Galatians 6:6, 2 Corinthians 11:15

12If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

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1 Corinthians 9:18, 1 Corinthians 9:15, 2 Corinthians 11:12, 1 Corinthians 9:18, 1 Corinthians 9:15

13Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

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Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:20, Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:20, Numbers 5:9

14So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.

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Matthew 10:10, Matthew 10:10, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Timothy 5:18, 1 Timothy 5:17

15But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die rather than that any man should make my glory void.

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1 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 9:12

16For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

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Romans 1:14, Romans 1:14, Jeremiah 20:9, Jeremiah 20:9, Colossians 4:17

17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me.

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Galatians 2:7, Galatians 2:7, 1 Corinthians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 4:1

18What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

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1 Corinthians 8:9, 2 Corinthians 11:7, 2 Corinthians 11:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Corinthians 8:9

19For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

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Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:13, Matthew 18:15, Matthew 18:15, James 5:19

20And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

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Acts 16:3, Acts 16:3, Galatians 5:18, Galatians 5:18, Acts 21:20

21To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.

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Romans 2:12, Romans 2:12, Galatians 3:2, Romans 2:14, Galatians 3:2

22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

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1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 9:19, 1 Corinthians 9:19, Romans 15:1

23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.

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2 Timothy 2:10, 2 Timothy 2:10, Mark 8:35, 1 Corinthians 9:25, 1 Corinthians 9:27

24Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

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Philippians 3:14, Philippians 3:14, Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:1, 2 Timothy 4:7

25And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

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2 Timothy 2:5, 2 Timothy 2:5, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:10, 1 Timothy 6:12

26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air.

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2 Peter 1:10, Philippians 1:21, 2 Timothy 2:5, 2 Peter 1:10, Philippians 1:21

27But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

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Romans 8:13, Romans 8:13, 1 Corinthians 9:25, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Colossians 3:5