1 Corinthians 9-11 (Darby Translation)

1 Corinthians 9

 ¹Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not *ye* my work in [the] Lord?

 ²If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord.

 ³My defence to those who examine me is this:

 ⁴Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

 ⁵have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

 ⁶Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

 ⁷Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

 ⁸Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

 ⁹For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

 ¹⁰or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].

 ¹¹If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things?

 ¹²If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.

 ¹³Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

 ¹⁴So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

 ¹⁵But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

 ¹⁶For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

 ¹⁷For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

 ¹⁸What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.

 ¹⁹For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].

 ²⁰And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

 ²¹to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law.

 ²²I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

 ²³And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

 ²⁴Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

 ²⁵But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

 ²⁶*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

 ²⁷But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

1 Corinthians 10

 ¹For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

 ²and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

 ³and all ate the same spiritual food,

 ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;)

 ⁵yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

 ⁶But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

 ⁷Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

 ⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

 ⁹Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

 ¹⁰Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

 ¹¹Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

 ¹²So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

 ¹³No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [it].

 ¹⁴Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

 ¹⁵I speak as to intelligent [persons]: do *ye* judge what I say.

 ¹⁶The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not [the] communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not [the] communion of the body of the Christ?

 ¹⁷Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

 ¹⁸See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

 ¹⁹What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

 ²⁰But that what [the nations] sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

 ²¹Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and [the] cup of demons: ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of [the] table of demons.

 ²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

 ²³All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify.

 ²⁴Let no one seek his own [advantage], but that of the other.

 ²⁵Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

 ²⁶For the earth [is] the Lord's and its fulness.

 ²⁷But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

 ²⁸But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;

 ²⁹but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

 ³⁰If *I* partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what *I* give thanks for?

 ³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.

 ³²Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

 ³³Even as *I* also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 11

 ¹Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.

 ²Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

 ³But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.

 ⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his head, puts his head to shame.

 ⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].

 ⁶For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

 ⁷For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

 ⁸For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

 ⁹For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

 ¹⁰Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

 ¹¹However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without woman, in [the] Lord.

 ¹²For as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by the woman, but all things of God.

 ¹³Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

 ¹⁴Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

 ¹⁵But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her; for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.

 ¹⁶But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

 ¹⁷But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

 ¹⁸For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].

 ¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

 ²⁰When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat [the] Lord's supper.

 ²¹For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

 ²²Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this [point] I do not praise.

 ²³For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

 ²⁴and having given thanks broke [it], and said, This is my body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.

 ²⁵In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink [it], in remembrance of me.

 ²⁶For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

 ²⁷So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

 ²⁸But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

 ²⁹For [the] eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.

 ³⁰On this account many among you [are] weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

 ³¹But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.

 ³²But being judged, we are disciplined of [the] Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

 ³³So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

 ³⁴If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.