1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord?stylusActs 9:17, Acts 9:17, 1 Corinthians 3:6, 1 Timothy 2:7, Acts 9:32If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.stylus2 Corinthians 12:12, 2 Corinthians 12:12, John 6:27, 2 Corinthians 3:1, 2 Corinthians 3:33My answer to them that examine me is this,stylus1 Corinthians 14:37, 2 Corinthians 10:7, 2 Corinthians 10:8, 2 Corinthians 13:10, 2 Corinthians 13:34Have we not power to eat and to drink?stylus1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:85Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?stylusJohn 1:42, John 1:42, Matthew 8:14, Matthew 8:14, Galatians 1:196Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?stylus2 Thessalonians 3:7, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:7, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Acts 13:17Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?stylusProverbs 27:18, Proverbs 27:18, Deuteronomy 20:6, Deuteronomy 20:6, 2 Timothy 2:38Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?stylus1 Corinthians 7:40, Romans 3:31, Romans 6:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Isaiah 8:209For 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?stylusDeuteronomy 25:4, Deuteronomy 25:4, 1 Timothy 5:18, 1 Timothy 5:18, Psalms 104:2710Or saith he [this] 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.stylusRomans 15:4, 2 Timothy 2:6, Romans 15:4, 2 Timothy 2:6, Romans 4:2311If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?stylusRomans 15:27, Romans 15:27, Galatians 6:6, Galatians 6:6, 2 Corinthians 11:1512If others are 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.stylus1 Corinthians 9:18, 1 Corinthians 9:15, 2 Corinthians 11:12, 1 Corinthians 9:18, 1 Corinthians 9:1513Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things live [from the things] of the temple, and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?stylusNumbers 18:8, Numbers 18:20, Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:20, Numbers 5:914Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.stylusMatthew 10:10, Matthew 10:10, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Timothy 5:18, 1 Timothy 5:1715But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.stylus1 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 9:1216For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!stylusRomans 1:14, Romans 1:14, Jeremiah 20:9, Jeremiah 20:9, Colossians 4:1717For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed to me.stylusGalatians 2:7, Galatians 2:7, 1 Corinthians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 4:118What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my power in the gospel.stylus1 Corinthians 8:9, 2 Corinthians 11:7, 2 Corinthians 11:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Corinthians 8:919For though I am free from all [men], yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.stylusGalatians 5:13, Galatians 5:13, Matthew 18:15, Matthew 18:15, James 5:1920And to 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;stylusActs 16:3, Acts 16:3, Galatians 5:18, Galatians 5:18, Acts 21:2021To 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.stylusRomans 2:12, Romans 2:12, Galatians 3:2, Romans 2:14, Galatians 3:222To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.stylus1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 9:19, 1 Corinthians 9:19, Romans 15:123And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with [you].stylus2 Timothy 2:10, 2 Timothy 2:10, Mark 8:35, 1 Corinthians 9:25, 1 Corinthians 9:2724Know ye not, that they who run in a race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.stylusPhilippians 3:14, Philippians 3:14, Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:1, 2 Timothy 4:725And 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.stylus2 Timothy 2:5, 2 Timothy 2:5, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:10, 1 Timothy 6:1226I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air:stylus2 Peter 1:10, Philippians 1:21, 2 Timothy 2:5, 2 Peter 1:10, Philippians 1:2127But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.stylusRomans 8:13, Romans 8:13, 1 Corinthians 9:25, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Colossians 3:5