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Found 27 Verses (from 21)

1 Corinthians 9:4

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Don't we have the right to food and drink? NIV

Have we not the right to our food and drink [at the expense of the churches]? AMP

Have we not power to eat and to drink? KJV

1 Corinthians 9:16

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For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! NIV

For if I [merely] preach the Gospel, that gives me no reason to boast, for I feel compelled of necessity to do it. Woe is me if I do not preach the glad tidings (the Gospel)! AMP

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! KJV

1 Corinthians 9:22

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To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. NIV

To the weak (wanting in discernment) I have become weak (wanting in discernment) that I might win the weak and overscrupulous. I have [in short] become all things to all men, that I might by all means (at all costs and in any and every way) save some [by winning them to faith in Jesus Christ]. AMP

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. KJV

1 Corinthians 9:27

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No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. NIV

But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit]. AMP

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. KJV

1 Corinthians 9:1

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Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? NIV

AM I not an apostle (a special messenger)? Am I not free (unrestrained and exempt from any obligation)? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you [yourselves] not [the product and proof of] my workmanship in the Lord? AMP

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? KJV

1 Corinthians 9:25

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Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. NIV

Now every athlete who goes into training conducts himself temperately and restricts himself in all things. They do it to win a wreath that will soon wither, but we [do it to receive a crown of eternal blessedness] that cannot wither. AMP

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. KJV

1 Corinthians 9:5

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Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas? NIV

Have we not the right also to take along with us a Christian sister as wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas (Peter)? AMP

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? KJV