The 1st Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians - Chapter 9

[00:00:00] Welcome to the reading of the King James Bible. Hello, my name is Bill Kelley and I will be your host. This is a reading from the 1st Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. This is Chapter 9.

[00:00:16] Am I not and Apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord? If I be not and Apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you

[00:00:34] For the seal of mine Apostleship are ye in the Lord. Mine answer to them that do examine me is this. Have we not power to eat and drink? Have we not power to lead about a sister?

[00:00:53] A sister? A wife, as well as other apostles. And as the brethren of the Lord and Sethus. Or I only and Barnabas have not we power to forebear working. Who go with a warfare any time at his own charges? Who planteth of inured?

[00:01:17] And eateth not of the fruit thereof. Or who feedeth a flock? And eateth not of the milk of the flock? Say I these things as a man, or sayeth not the law the same also.

[00:01:35] For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox, that treeteth out the corn.

[00:01:45] Doeth God take care for oxen, or sayeth he it all together 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.

[00:02:09] If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Never the less. We have not used this power but suffer all things.

[00:02:34] Less we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple?

[00:02:47] And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar. Even so have the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

[00:03:03] 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 glory void.

[00:03:22] For though I preach the gospel. I have nothing to glory of. For necessity is laid upon me. Yay, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

[00:03:38] 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. What is my reward then?

[00:03:55] 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. For though I be free from all men yet have I made myself servant unto all that I might gain the more.

[00:04:21] 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.

[00:04:37] 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.

[00:04:53] 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 and this I do for the gospel's sake that I might be partaker thereof with you.

[00:05:17] No ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveeth the prize so run that ye may obtain.

[00:05:31] And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we and incorruptible. I therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the air,

[00:05:57] but I keep under my body and bring it in disobjection less that by any means when I have preached to others I myself should be a cast away.