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1 Corinthians 9:1. Am I not free? since I am not a slave to the service of the womb? Or If I sanctify and eat, like you all? Haven't I... seen Christ... Jesus...? - Therefore and for this reason He strengthens me. mine, if I command you this? 1 Corinthians 9:2. And although for others, who have not seen my strength, I am not an Apostle, but for you, through me received the gifts of the Spirit, [Apostle] I [am]. And the seal... of the apostleship... of mine you are by speaking in tongues received by you from the Spirit. And if we have been made worthy of the great apostolic gifts, then 1 Corinthians 9:4. we have no power... we have the power to eat and drink, like the apostles who eat and drink? He began to defend himself and his comrades, saying: 1 Corinthians 9:7–8. Who serves in Army 19 on their own pay... ever? 1 Corinthians 9:9. And in the law, he says, it is written: You shall not tie the mouth of an ox that is threshing (Deut. 25:4). Is it really “about the oxen” that “God” cares about, but not about us? But, obviously, through the oxen he made a symbolic foretelling about us, if he had first taken care of the oxen (1 Cor. 9:10). And is there really anything great in the fact that 1 Corinthians 9:11. We will reap carnal things from you... if we ourselves have sown spiritual things for you? After all, those who serve at the church eat from this house, and those who serve at the altar in Jerusalem, with 1 Corinthians 9:13. altar om share. 1 Cor.9:14. And our Lord established saying that whoever preaches His Gospel among the people (Israel) and among the Gentiles, let them live from the Gospel itself; He said exactly this: “Eat from that house; the worker is worthy of his food” (Matthew 10:10, Luke 10:7). Although I have an example for myself in all this, I did not bother you with anything like this: 1 Corinthians 9:15. for it is good for me to die rather than... my praise, - this that I preach for free, Moreover, if I preach the gospel, then there should be no gratitude to me for this 1 Corinthians 9:16. and I have no praise, that is, it is not in my will, but necessary awn... lies on me from Him who sent me: alas if I don’t preach the gospel. 1 Corinthians 9:17. For if... voluntarily... it was I who did 20, I would receive a reward 21 for the good will that lives in me. If I have been faithful to the economy, then what is my reward if for the sake of the reward I carry out the economy entrusted to me? (1 Cor. 9:18) 1 Corinthians 9:19. For, being free from everyone, I enslaved myself to everyone, so that dedicated, I entered the church so that Jews... to acquire (Acts 21:26). “With those of the law” I cut my hair (Acts 18:18) in order to “acquire” them. And for those “not under the law,” for the Athenians, at the time when I entered (in Athens) and walked among their churches, I became “not under the law,” in order to “acquire” them (1 Cor. 9:21, Acts 17:16). 1 Cor.9:22. With the weak who fall and sin, I was... weak to acquire them. The same thing he says: “Who would faint, and... I would not be inflamed? or who would be tempted, and I... would not faint?” (2 Cor. 11:29). 1 Corinthians 9:23. I do this with a private owner... to be... Gospels Christ, who desires the life of all people. 1 Corinthians 9:24. Don’t you know that... there are 22 runners on the lists, although many are running... but one remains after the other until only one gets it And each of those competing there in the race abstains so that the perishable How much more should we, increasing and expanding our feat, protect ourselves from all bad deeds? For we strive because 1 Corinthians 9:26. Therefore, I... not so... run like 23 to the wrong, that is, not like someone who does not know why he is competing, and therefore may receive defeat instead of the expected victory; not so... I fight... to hit the air in vain. 1 Corinthians 9:27. But I tame my body I myself did not remain unworthy These sayings are found in this order in Sin. Alex., Vat. Porphyry, and many other codes, as well as in translations: sire. (Peshito), Copt., Ethiopian, in Vulg. and among the writers: Origen, Tertullian, Ambrose of Milan Augustine is available in the codices: Clarom., Sangerm., in Arabic, and among the writers: Chrysostom, Theodoret, Damascene, Ambrosiastes. Literally slav.: “fights”. Literally: “I... therefore... I run as if not to the wrong thing.” You might be interested in: