Verse 18
1 Corinthians 9:18
Young's Literal Translation
18
What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
Original Language Text
greek
τίς οὖν ⸀μού ἐστιν ὁ μισθός; ἵνα εὐαγγελιζόμενος ἀδάπανον θήσω τὸ ⸀εὐαγγέλιον, εἰς τὸ μὴ καταχρήσασθαι τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ μου ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ.
English Translation
What then is my reward? That I might present the gospel without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 9 Context
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Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Yashua (Jesus) Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not...
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if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye...
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My defence to those who examine me in this;
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have we not authority to eat and to drink?
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have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the breth...
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or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?
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who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fr...
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8
According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?
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9
for in the law of Moses it hath been written, 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for t...
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or because of us by all means doth He say [it]? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope o...
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11
If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great [is it] if we your fleshly things do reap?
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12
if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, bu...
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13
Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and tho...
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14
so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.
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15
And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my...
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16
for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is...
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17
for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entr...
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18
What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news o...
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for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;
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20
and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that tho...
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21
to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God (Elohim), but within law to Ch...
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22
I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things,...
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23
And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
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have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so...
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and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible c...
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I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
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but I chastise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others...
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