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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 1 Corinthians 9

Chapter 9

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

I not an

2,3 1:1 15:8,9 Acts 9:15 13:2 14:4 22:14,15 16:17,18 Romans 1:1,5 Romans 11:13 2 Corinthians 11:5 12:11,12 Galatians 1:1,15-17 2:7,8 1 Timothy 2:7 2 Timothy 1:11 Titus 1:1-3

am I not free

19 Galatians 5:1

have

15:8 Acts 9:3,5,17 18:9 22:6-8,14-21 23:11 26:16-18

are

3:6 4:14,15 Acts 18:8-11 2 Corinthians 6:1

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

for

John 6:27 2 Corinthians 3:1-3 12:12

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

answer

Acts 22:1 25:16 Philippians 1:7,17 2 Timothy 4:16 *Gr:

them

14:37 2 Corinthians 10:7,8 12:16-19 13:3,5,10

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

we

7-14 Matthew 10:10 Luke 10:7 Galatians 6:6 1 Thessalonians 2:6 2 Thessalonians 3:8,9 1 Timothy 5:17,18

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

to lead

1 Timothy 3:2 4:3 Titus 1:6 Hebrews 13:4

a sister

7:15,39 Song of Solomon 4:9,10,12 5:1,2 Romans 16:1 1 Timothy 5:2

wife

or, woman. the brethren.

Matthew 12:46-50 13:55 Mark 6:3 Luke 6:15 John 2:12 Acts 1:14 Galatians 1:19

Cephas

1:12 Matthew 8:14 Mark 1:30 John 1:42

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

Barnabas

Acts 4:36 11:22 13:1,2,50 14:12 15:36,37

have

4:11,12 Acts 18:3 20:34,35 1 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

Who 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?

goeth

2 Corinthians 10:4,5 1 Timothy 1:18 6:12 2 Timothy 2:3,4 4:7

planteth

3:6-8 Deuteronomy 20:6 Proverbs 27:18 Song of Solomon 8:12

or

Jeremiah 23:2,3 John 21:15-17 Acts 20:28 1 Peter 5:2

eateth not of the milk

Proverbs 27:27 Isaiah 7:22

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

as

7:40 Romans 6:19 1 Thessalonians 2:13 4:8

or

14:34 Isaiah 8:20 Romans 3:31

For 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?

Thou

Deuteronomy 25:4 1 Timothy 5:18

Doth

Numbers 22:28-35 Deuteronomy 5:14 Psalms 104:27 145:15,16 147:8,9 Jonah 4:11 Matthew 6:26-30 Luke 12:24-28

Or 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.

For

Matthew 24:22 Romans 15:4 2 Corinthians 4:15

that ploweth

3:9 Luke 17:7,8 John 4:35-38 2 Timothy 2:6

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

sown

Malachi 3:8,9 Matthew 10:10 Romans 15:27 Galatians 6:6

a great

2 Kings 5:13 2 Corinthians 11:15

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 gospel of Christ.

others

2 Corinthians 11:20

are not

2 4:14,15

Nevertheless

15,18 Acts 20:31-34 2 Corinthians 11:7-10 12:13,14 1 Thessalonians 2:6-9 2 Thessalonians 3:8,9

but

4:11,12 6:7

hinder

Genesis 24:56 Nehemiah 4:8 Luke 11:52 Romans 15:22 2 Corinthians 11:12

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?

they

10:18 Leviticus 6:16-18,26 7:6-8 Numbers 5:9,10 18:8-20 Deuteronomy 10:9 18:1-5 1 Samuel 2:28

live

or, feed.

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

ordained

4 Matthew 10:10 Luke 10:7 Galatians 6:6 1 Timothy 5:17

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.

I have

12 4:12 Acts 8:3 20:34 1 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither

2 Corinthians 11:9-12 12:13-18

for

Matthew 18:6 Acts 20:24 Philippians 1:20-23

For 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!

I have

Romans 4:2 15:17

for

Jeremiah 1:17 20:7,9 Amos 3:8 7:15 Acts 4:20 9:6,15 26:16-20 Romans 1:14

woe

Isaiah 6:5 Luke 9:62 Colossians 4:17

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.

if I

1 Chronicles 28:9 29:5,9,14 Nehemiah 11:2 Isaiah 6:8 2 Corinthians 8:12 Philemon 1:14 1 Peter 5:2-4

have

3:8,14 Matthew 10:41

against

Exodus 4:13,14 Jeremiah 20:9 Ezekiel 3:14 Jonah 1:3 4:1-3 Malachi 1:10

dispensation

16 4:1 Matthew 24:25 Luke 12:42 Galatians 2:7 Ephesians 3:2-8 Philippians 1:17 Colossians 1:25 1 Thessalonians 2:4 1 Timothy 1:11-13

What 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.

when

6,7 10:33 2 Corinthians 4:5 11:7-9 12:13-18 1 Thessalonians 2:6 2 Thessalonians 3:8,9

that I

7:31 8:9 Romans 14:15

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

I be

1 Galatians 5:1

I made

10:33 Matthew 20:26-28 John 13:14,15 Romans 1:14 15:2 2 Corinthians 4:5 Galatians 5:13

that

20-22 7:16 Proverbs 11:30 Matthew 18:15 Romans 11:14 1 Timothy 4:16 2 Timothy 2:10 James 5:19,20 1 Peter 3:1

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;

unto

Acts 16:3 17:2,3 18:18 21:20-26

are under

Romans 3:19 6:14,15 Galatians 4:5,21 5:18

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.

them

Acts 15:28 16:4 21:25 Romans 2:12,14 Galatians 2:3,4,12-14 3:2

not

7:19-22 Psalms 119:32 Matthew 5:17-20 Romans 7:22,25 8:4 13:8-10 Galatians 5:13,14,22,23 Ephesians 6:1-3 1 Thessalonians 4:1,2 Titus 2:2-12 Hebrews 8:10

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.

To the weak

8:13 Romans 15:1 2 Corinthians 11:29 Galatians 6:1

I am

10:33

that I might by

19 7:16 Romans 11:14

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

for

12 Mark 8:35 2 Corinthians 2:4 Galatians 2:5 2 Timothy 2:10

that

25-27 2 Timothy 2:6 Hebrews 3:1,14 1 Peter 5:1 1 John 1:3

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

they

Hosea 12:10

run in

Psalms 19:5 Ecclesiastes 9:11 Jeremiah 12:5

so run

26 Galatians 2:2 5:7 Philippians 2:16 3:14 2 Timothy 4:7,8 Hebrews 12:1 James 1:12 Revelation 3:11

And 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.

striveth

Ephesians 6:12-18 1 Timothy 6:12 2 Timothy 2:5 4:7 Hebrews 12:4

temperate

Galatians 5:23 Titus 1:8 2:2 2 Peter 1:6

but

15:54 2 Timothy 4:8 Hebrews 12:28 James 1:12 1 Peter 1:4 5:4 Revelation 2:10 3:11 Revelation 4:4,10

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

not

2 Corinthians 5:1,8 Philippians 1:21 2 Timothy 1:12 2:5 Hebrews 4:1 1 Peter 5:1 2 Peter 1:10

so

Matthew 11:12 Luke 13:24 Ephesians 6:12 Colossians 1:29

But 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.

I keep

25 4:11,12 6:12,13 8:13 Romans 8:13 2 Corinthians 6:4,5 11:27 Colossians 3:5 2 Timothy 2:22 1 Peter 2:11

and

Romans 6:18,19

lest

13:1-3 Psalms 50:16 Matthew 7:21-23 Luke 12:45-47 13:26,27 2 Peter 2:15

a castaway

Jeremiah 6:30 Luke 9:25 Acts 1:25 2 Corinthians 13:5,6