1 Corinthians 9

New American Standard Bible

Paul’s Use of Freedom

9 Am I not ^(A)free? Am I not an ^(B)apostle? Have I not ^(C)seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not ^(D)my work in the Lord? ²If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the ^(E)seal of my ^(F)apostleship in the Lord.

³My defense to those who examine me is this: ⁴^[a]^(G)Do we not have a right to eat and drink? ⁵^[b]^(H)Do we not have a right to take along a ^[c]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the ^(I)brothers of the Lord, and ^[d]^(J)Cephas? ⁶Or do only ^[e]^(K)Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from ^[f]working? ⁷Who at any time serves ^(L)as a soldier at his own expense? Who ^(M)plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not ^[g]consume some of the milk of the flock?

⁸I am not just asserting these things ^(N)according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well? ⁹For it is written in the Law of Moses: “^(O)You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about ^(P)oxen, is He? ¹⁰Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written ^(Q)for our sake, because ^(R)the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops. ¹¹^(S)If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? ¹²If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we ^(T)did not use this right, but we endure all things ^(U)so that we will cause no hindrance to the ^(V)gospel of Christ. ¹³^(W)Do you not know that those who ^(X)perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share ^[h]from the altar? ¹⁴So also ^(Y)the Lord directed those who proclaim the ^(Z)gospel to ^(AA)get their living from the gospel.

¹⁵But I have ^(AB)used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make ^(AC)my boast an empty one! ¹⁶For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for ^(AD)I am under compulsion; for woe to me if I do not preach ^(AE)the gospel. ¹⁷For if I do this voluntarily, I have a ^(AF)reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a ^(AG)commission nonetheless. ¹⁸What, then, is my ^(AH)reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel ^(AI)without charge, so as ^(AJ)not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

¹⁹For though I am ^(AK)free from all people, I have made myself ^(AL)a slave to all, so that I may ^(AM)gain more. ²⁰^(AN)To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though ^(AO)not being under the Law myself, so that I might gain those who are under the Law; ²¹to those who are ^(AP)without the Law, I became ^(AQ)as one without the Law, though not being without the law of God but ^(AR)under the law of Christ, so that I might gain those who are without the Law. ²²To the ^(AS)weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become ^(AT)all things to all people, ^(AU)so that I may by all means save some. ²³I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

²⁴^(AV)Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives ^(AW)the prize? ^(AX)Run in such a way that you may win. ²⁵Everyone who ^(AY)competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable ^(AZ)wreath, but we an imperishable. ²⁶Therefore I ^(BA)run in such a way as not to run aimlessly; I box in such a way, as ^[i]to avoid ^(BB)hitting air; ²⁷but I strictly discipline ^(BC)my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Footnotes

1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it?
1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?
1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as a wife
1 Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s Aramaic name
1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas
1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves
1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from
1 Corinthians 9:13 Lit with
1 Corinthians 9:26 Lit not hitting

哥林多前书 9

Chinese New Version (Simplified)

使徒的权利

9 我不是自由的吗？我不是使徒吗？我不是见过我们的主耶稣吗？你们不是我在主里面的工作吗？ ²对别人来说，我或许不是使徒，但对你们来说，我总是使徒，因为你们就是我在主里作使徒的印记。

³对那些盘问我的人，这就是我的答辩。 ⁴难道我们没有权利吃喝吗？ ⁵难道我们没有权利，像其余的使徒、主的弟兄和矶法一样，带着信主的妻子往来吗？ ⁶难道只有我和巴拿巴没有权利不作工吗？ ⁷有谁当兵要自备粮饷呢？有谁栽种葡萄园，不吃园里的果子呢？有谁牧养羊群，不喝羊的奶呢？ ⁸我说这话，不是照着人的意见，律法不也是这样说吗？ ⁹就在摩西的律法上记着说：“牛踹谷的时候，不可笼住牠的嘴。”难道　神关心的只是牛吗？ ¹⁰这不全是为我们说的吗？当然是为我们说的，因为耕种的应当存着希望去耕种，收割的也应当存着希望去分享收获。 ¹¹我们既然在你们中间撒了属灵的种子，如果要从你们那里收获一些物质的供应，这算是过分吗？ ¹²如果别人在你们身上享有这种权利，我们不是更可以享有吗？

所作的一切都是为了福音

然而我们没有用过这种权利，反而凡事容忍，免得我们拦阻了基督的福音。 ¹³难道你们不知道，在圣殿供职的，就吃殿中的供物；侍候祭坛的，就分领坛上的祭物吗？ ¹⁴主也曾这样吩咐，叫传福音的人靠福音为生。 ¹⁵但这种权利，我一点也没有用过。我写这些话，并不是想叫人这样待我，因为我宁可死，也不让人使我所夸耀的落了空。 ¹⁶我传福音原是没有可夸的，因我不能不传。如果不传福音，我就有祸了。 ¹⁷如果我甘心作这事，就有赏赐；即使不甘心，这职责还是托付我了。 ¹⁸那么，我的赏赐是甚么呢？就是我传福音时，叫人免费得着福音。这样，我就没有用过传福音可以享有的权利了。

¹⁹我虽然自由，不受任何人管辖，但我自愿成为众人的奴仆，为的是要多得一些人。 ²⁰对犹太人，我就作犹太人，为了要得着犹太人；对律法以下的人，虽然我自己不在律法之下，还是作了律法以下的人，为了要得着律法以下的人。 ²¹对没有律法的人，我就作了没有律法的人，其实我不是在　神的律法以外，而是在基督的律法之下，为了要得着没有律法的人。 ²²对软弱的人，我就成了软弱的人，为了要得着软弱的人。对怎么样的人，我就作怎么样的人；无论如何，总要救一些人。 ²³我所作的一切，都是为了福音的缘故，好让我与别人同享福音的好处。

²⁴难道你们不知道，在场上赛跑的人，虽然大家都跑，但得奖的只有一个人吗？你们都应当这样跑，好叫你们可以得奖。 ²⁵凡参加运动比赛的，在一切事上都有节制；他们这样作，不过要得到能坏的冠冕，我们却是要得不朽的冠冕。 ²⁶所以我奔跑，不是没有目标的；我斗拳，不是打空气的。 ²⁷我要克制自己的身体，叫身体服我，免得我传了给别人，自己反而落选了。

1 Corinthians 9

King James Version

9 Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

²If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

³Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

⁴Have we not power to eat and to drink?

⁵Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁶Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

⁷Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

⁸Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

⁹For 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?

¹⁰Or saith he it 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.

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

¹²If others be 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.

¹³Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

¹⁴Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

¹⁵But 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 glorying void.

¹⁶For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

¹⁷For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

¹⁸What is my reward then? 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.

¹⁹For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰And 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;

²¹To 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.

²²To 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.

²³And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

²⁴Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

²⁵And 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.

²⁶I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

²⁷But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

哥林多前书 9

Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)

保罗在何事不用自由

9 我不是自由的吗？我不是使徒吗？我不是见过我们的主耶稣吗？你们不是我在主里面所做之工吗？ ²假若在别人我不是使徒，在你们我总是使徒，因为你们在主里正是我做使徒的印证。 ³我对那盘问我的人就是这样分诉。 ⁴难道我们没有权柄靠福音吃喝吗？ ⁵难道我们没有权柄娶信主的姐妹为妻，带着一同往来，仿佛其余的使徒和主的弟兄并矶法一样吗？ ⁶独有我与巴拿巴没有权柄不做工吗？ ⁷有谁当兵自备粮饷呢？有谁栽葡萄园不吃园里的果子呢？有谁牧养牛羊不吃牛羊的奶呢？ ⁸我说这话，岂是照人的意见？律法不也是这样说吗？ ⁹就如摩西的律法记着说：“牛在场上踹谷的时候，不可笼住它的嘴。”难道神所挂念的是牛吗？ ¹⁰不全是为我们说的吗？分明是为我们说的。因为耕种的当存着指望去耕种，打场的也当存得粮的指望去打场。 ¹¹我们若把属灵的种子撒在你们中间，就是从你们收割奉养肉身之物，这还算大事吗？ ¹²若别人在你们身上有这权柄，何况我们呢？然而，我们没有用过这权柄，倒凡事忍受，免得基督的福音被阻隔。

传福音的当靠福音养生

¹³你们岂不知为圣事劳碌的，就吃殿中的物吗？伺候祭坛的，就分领坛上的物吗？ ¹⁴主也是这样命定，叫传福音的靠着福音养生。 ¹⁵但这权柄我全没有用过。我写这话，并非要你们这样待我，因为我宁可死，也不叫人使我所夸的落了空。 ¹⁶我传福音原没有可夸的，因为我是不得已的；若不传福音，我便有祸了。 ¹⁷我若甘心做这事，就有赏赐；若不甘心，责任却已经托付我了。 ¹⁸既是这样，我的赏赐是什么呢？就是我传福音的时候，叫人不花钱得福音，免得用尽我传福音的权柄。 ¹⁹我虽是自由的，无人辖管，然而我甘心做了众人的仆人，为要多得人。 ²⁰向犹太人，我就做犹太人，为要得犹太人。向律法以下的人，我虽不在律法以下，还是做律法以下的人，为要得律法以下的人。 ²¹向没有律法的人，我就做没有律法的人，为要得没有律法的人；其实我在神面前不是没有律法，在基督面前正在律法之下。 ²²向软弱的人，我就做软弱的人，为要得软弱的人。向什么样的人，我就做什么样的人，无论如何总要救些人。 ²³凡我所行的，都是为福音的缘故，为要与人同得这福音的好处。

当为不坏的冠冕赛跑

²⁴岂不知在场上赛跑的都跑，但得奖赏的只有一人？你们也当这样跑，好叫你们得着奖赏。 ²⁵凡较力争胜的，诸事都有节制。他们不过是要得能坏的冠冕，我们却是要得不能坏的冠冕。 ²⁶所以，我奔跑不像无定向的，我斗拳不像打空气的。 ²⁷我是攻克己身，叫身服我，恐怕我传福音给别人，自己反被弃绝了。

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