en_cepher - 1Co 9 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ AM I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Yahusha Ha'Mashiach our Adonai? are not ye my work in Yahuah?

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

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

⁴ Have we not power to eat and to drink?

⁵ Have we not power to lead about a sister, a woman, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of Yahuah, and Kepha?

⁶ Or I only and Bar-Naviy, have not we power to forbear working?

⁷ Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

⁸ Say I these things as a man? or says not the Torah the same also?

⁹ For it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does Elohiym take care for oxen?

¹⁰ Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

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

¹² If 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 Besorah of Mashiach.

¹³ Do 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?

¹⁴ Even so has Yahuah ordained that they which preach the Besorah should live by the Besorah.

¹⁵ 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 glorying void.

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

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

¹⁸ What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the Besorah, I may make the Besorah of Mashiach without charge, that I abuse not my power in the Besorah.

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

²⁰ And unto the Yahudiym I became as a Yahudiy, that I might gain the Yahudiym; to them that are under the Law, as under the Law, that I might gain them that are under the Law;

²¹ To them that are without the Law, as without the Torah, (not being without the Torah to Elohiym, but subject to the Torah of Mashiach,) that I might gain them that are without Torah.

²² 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.

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

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

²⁵ And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

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

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