1 Corinthians 9 - World Messianic Bible(WMB)

1 Am I not free? Am I not an emissary? Haven’t I seen Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

2If to others I am not an emissary, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of emissary in the Lord.

3 My defense to those who examine me is this:

4Have we no right to eat and to drink?

5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the emissaries, and the brothers of the Lord, and Kefa?

6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the Torah also say the same thing?

9For it is written in the Torah of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” that I might gain those who are under the law;

21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.

22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.