1 Corinthians 9:12 — 1 Corinthians 10:4

12 If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? Yet we did ^anot use this right, but we ¹bear all things that we may ^bnot cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

13 Do you not know that those who labor on the ¹sacred things ^aeat the things of the sacred temple, that those who attend to the altar have their portion with the altar?

14 So also the Lord directed those who announce the gospel to ^alive from the gospel.

15 But I myself have not used ^aany of these things; and I have not written these things that it may be so with me; for it is good for me ¹rather to die ²than — No one shall make my ^bboast void.

16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no boast, for ^anecessity is laid upon me; for woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.

17 If I do this of my own will, I have a ^1areward; but if not of my own will, I am ^bentrusted with a ^2cstewardship.

18 What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may present the gospel ^awithout charge, so as ^bnot to use to the full my right in the gospel.

19 For though I am ^afree from ¹all, I have ^benslaved myself to ¹all that I might gain the more.

20 And to the Jews I became ^aas a Jew in order that I might ^bgain Jews; to those ^cunder law, as under law (though I myself am ^dnot under law), that I might gain those under law.

21 To those ^awithout law, ^bas without law (though I am not ¹without law to God but ²within ^claw to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

22 To the weak I ^abecame weak that I might gain the weak. To all men I have ¹become ^ball things that I might by all means ^csave some.

23 And I do all things for the sake of the gospel that I may become a ¹fellow ^apartaker of it.

24 Do you not know that those who ¹run on a ^aracecourse all run, but one receives the ^2bprize? ^cRun in this way, that you may ³lay hold.

25 And everyone who ^acontends exercises self-control in all things; they then, that they may receive a corruptible ¹crown, but we, ^ban ^cincorruptible.

26 I therefore ^arun in this way, not as though without a clear aim; I box in this way, not as though beating the ^bair;

27 But I ¹buffet my body and ²make it my slave, ³lest perhaps having ⁴preached to others, I myself may become ^5adisapproved.

CHAPTER 10

1 ¹For I do not want you to be ^2aignorant, brothers, that ³all our fathers were under the ^4bcloud, and all passed through the ^csea;

2 And all were ^1abaptized ²unto Moses ³in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And all ate the same ¹spiritual ^afood,

4 And all drank the same ¹spiritual ^adrink; for they drank of a ²spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:4 — 1 Corinthians 9:11

4 Therefore concerning the eating of things ^asacrificed to idols, we ¹know that an ^bidol is ^cnothing in the world and that there is no God but ^done.

5 For even if there are so-called ^agods, either in heaven or on earth, even as there are many gods and many lords,

6 Yet to ¹us there is ^2aone God, the ^3bFather, ⁴out from whom are ^call things, and we are ⁴unto Him; and ^5done Lord, ⁶Jesus Christ, ^4ethrough whom are all things, and we are ⁴through Him.

7 But ^athis knowledge is not in all men; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, ^beat the food as an ^cidol sacrifice, and their ^1dconscience, being weak, is ²defiled.

8 But ^afood will not commend us to God; neither if we do not eat are we lacking, nor if we eat do we ¹abound.

9 But beware lest somehow this ¹right of yours become a ^astumbling block to the ^2bweak ones.

10 For if anyone sees you who have ^aknowledge reclining at table in an ^bidol temple, will not his ^cconscience, if he is weak, be ¹emboldened to eat the things ^dsacrificed to the idols?

11 For the one who is ^aweak is being ^1bdestroyed by your ^cknowledge, the brother because of whom Christ ^ddied.

12 And sinning in this way against the brothers and ¹wounding their weak ^aconscience, you sin against Christ.

13 Therefore if food ^1astumbles my brother, I shall by no means eat ²meat forever, that I may not ¹stumble my brother.

CHAPTER 9

1 ¹Am I not ^2afree? Am I not an ^3bapostle? Have I not ^4cseen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my ^5dwork in the Lord?

2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet surely I am to ¹you; for you in the Lord are the ^2aseal of my ^bapostleship.

3 My defense to those who examine me is ¹this.

4 ¹Do we not have a ²right to ^3aeat and to drink?

5 Do we not have a right to take along a sister as a wife, ^aeven as the rest of the apostles and the ^bbrothers of the Lord and ^cCephas?

6 Or do only I and ^aBarnabas not have the ^bright not to work?

7 What soldier ever ^aserves by his own wages? Who ^bplants a ^cvineyard and does not ^dpartake of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?

8 Am I speaking these things ^aaccording to man? Or does the law not also say these things?

9 For in the law of Moses it is written: ^a“You shall not muzzle the ox ¹while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God cares?

10 Or does He say it altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written because the ^aplowman should plow in hope, and he who threshes, in hope of partaking.

11 If we have sown to you the ^aspiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap from you the fleshly things?

1 Corinthians 7:26 — 1 Corinthians 8:3

26 I consider then that this is good because of the ¹present ²necessity, that it is ^agood for a man to be as he is.

27 Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek a release. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

28 But even if you do ^amarry, you have ^bnot sinned; and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned; but such ones will have affliction in the flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

29 But this I say, brothers, the time is ^1ashortened. Henceforth both those who have wives should be as though they had none,

30 And those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,

31 And those who use the world as though they did not abuse it; for the fashion of this world is ^apassing away.

32 But I desire you to be without ^acare. The unmarried ^bcares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

33 But he who has married ^acares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

34 And is ¹distracted. Both the unmarried woman and the virgin care for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she who has married ^acares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

35 But this I say for your own profit, not that I may ¹put a noose upon you but that you may be comely and may wait on the Lord without ^adistraction.

36 But if anyone thinks that he is behaving unbecomingly to his virgin daughter, if she is past the bloom of youth and thus it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does ^anot sin; let them marry.

37 But he who stands firm in his heart, ¹being under no constraint, and has authority with respect to his own will and has ²decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.

38 So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in ^amarriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

39 A wife is ^abound for so long a time as her husband lives; but should the husband fall asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, ^bonly to one in the Lord.

40 But she is ¹more blessed if she so remains, according to my ^aopinion; but I think that I ²also have the ^bSpirit of God.

CHAPTER 8

1 Now concerning ¹things sacrificed to ^aidols, we ²know that we all have ^3bknowledge. ⁴Knowledge ^cpuffs up, but ^4dlove ^5ebuilds up.

2 If anyone ^athinks that he ¹knows anything, he has ^bnot yet come to ¹know as he ought to ¹know;

3 But if anyone ^1aloves God, this one is ^bknown by Him.

1 Corinthians 7:1 — 1 Corinthians 7:25

1 Now concerning the ¹things of which you wrote: It is ^agood for a man not to touch a woman.

2 But because of ^1afornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

3 Let the ^ahusband render to his wife that which is due, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

4 The ^awife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

5 Do not deprive each other, ^aexcept by agreement for a time that you may ¹devote yourselves to prayer, and then be together again, that ^2bSatan may not ^ctempt you because of your ³lack of ^dself-control.

6 But this I say by way of ¹concession, not by way of ^1acommand.

7 Yet I ¹wish all men to be even as I am myself; but each has his own ²gift from God, one in this way, the other in that.

8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is ^1agood for them if they remain even as I am.

9 But if they do not have ^1aself-control, let them ^bmarry; for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

10 But to the married ¹I charge, ^2anot I but the Lord, A ^bwife must not be ^cseparated from her husband

11 (But if indeed she is separated, let her ¹remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband), and a ^ahusband must not leave his wife.

12 But to the rest ¹I say, I, ^anot the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, he must not ^bleave her;

13 And a wife who has an unbelieving husband, and if he consents to dwell with her, must not leave her husband.

14 For the unbelieving husband is ^1asanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

15 But if the unbelieving one separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is ¹not enslaved in such cases, ²but God has called us in ^apeace.

16 ¹For ²how do you know, O ^awife, whether you will ^bsave your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

17 ¹However as the Lord has apportioned to each one, as God has ^acalled each one, so let him walk. And so I direct in all the ^bchurches.

18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? He need not ¹efface it. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He need not be ^acircumcised.

19 ^1aCircumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the ^bkeeping of God’s commandments is what counts.

20 Each one, in the ^acalling in which he was called, in this let him remain.

21 Were you called as a ^aslave? ¹Let it not concern you; ²but even if you are able to become ^bfree, ^cuse your status as a slave rather.

22 For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the ¹Lord’s freedman; likewise the free man who has been called is ¹Christ’s ^aslave.

23 You were ^abought with a ¹price; do not be ^2bslaves of men.

24 Each one, brothers, in what status he was ^acalled, in this let him remain ¹with God.

25 Now concerning ^avirgins I have ^bno ¹commandment of the Lord, but I give ¹my ^copinion as one who has been shown ^dmercy by the Lord to be ^efaithful.

1 Corinthians 6:2 — 1 Corinthians 6:20

2 Or do you not know that the saints will ^1ajudge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the ²smallest ³judgments?

3 Do you not know that we will ¹judge angels, not to mention things of this life?

4 If then you hold ^ajudgments over things of this life, do you seat as judges ¹those who are of no account in the church?

5 I say this to your ^ashame. So there is no one wise among you, who will be able to discern between his ^bbrothers?

6 But brother ¹goes to court with brother, and this before ^aunbelievers.

7 Already then it is altogether a ¹defeat to you that you have ²lawsuits with one another. Why not ^3arather be wronged? Why not ³rather be defrauded?

8 But you wrong and ^adefraud, and this your brothers.

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not ^1ainherit the kingdom of God? Do not be ^bled astray; neither ^cfornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor ^dhomosexuals

10 Nor thieves nor the covetous, not drunkards, not revilers, not the rapacious will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And these things were some of you; but you were ^1awashed, but you were ^1bsanctified, but you were ^1cjustified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

12 ^1aAll things are ²lawful to me, but not all things are ³profitable; all things are ²lawful to me, but I will not be ⁴brought under the power of anything.

13 ¹Foods are for the ^astomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to ^bnought both it and them. But the ²body is not for fornication but ^cfor the Lord, and the Lord ^dfor the body.

14 And God has both ^araised up the Lord and will ^1braise us up through His ^cpower.

15 Do you not know that your bodies are ^1amembers of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? ^2bAbsolutely not!

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For He says, ^a“The two shall be one flesh.”

17 But he who is ^1ajoined to the Lord is ^2bone spirit.

18 ^aFlee ^bfornication. Every ¹sin which a man may do is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

19 Or do you not know that your ^abody is a ^btemple of the ¹Holy Spirit ^cwithin you, whom you have ^dfrom God, and you are ^enot your own?

20 For you have been ^abought with a ^1bprice. So then ^2cglorify God in your ^dbody.