These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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1 Corinthians 9
Brit Hadashah 27 verses
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Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I have seen , our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work in the Lord?
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Acts 9:3 1 Corinthians 3:6 Acts 9:17 Acts 23:11 1 Corinthians 9:19 2 Timothy 1:11 1 Timothy 2:7 Romans 1:1 2 Corinthians 6:1 Acts 16:17-18 Acts 14:14 2 Corinthians 12:11-12 Acts 18:8-11 1 Thessalonians 2:6 Acts 13:2 Romans 1:5 Galatians 1:15-17 1 Corinthians 1:1 Acts 14:4 Acts 22:14-21 Galatians 5:1 1 Corinthians 9:2-3 Galatians 1:1 1 Corinthians 15:8-9 Titus 1:1-3 Acts 26:16-18 Acts 22:6-8 Romans 11:13 Acts 9:5 Galatians 2:7-8 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 2 Corinthians 11:5 Acts 9:15 -
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If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Messiahian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.
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- 3 That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
- 4 Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
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Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Messiahian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do—and the Lord’s brothers and ?
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John 1:42 Matthew 8:14 Galatians 1:19 1 Corinthians 7:7 Acts 1:14 Song of Solomon 5:1-2 Titus 1:6 1 Timothy 5:2 1 Timothy 4:3 Matthew 13:55 Matthew 12:46-50 Mark 1:30 1 Timothy 3:2 Hebrews 13:4 Mark 6:3 Romans 16:1 Song of Solomon 4:9-10 1 Corinthians 7:39 1 Corinthians 7:15 Song of Solomon 4:12 Luke 6:15 John 2:12 1 Corinthians 1:12 - 6 Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
- 7 What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?
- 8 Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?
- 9 For in the Law of it is written, “Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”
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Is simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the of sharing that which comes as the result.
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If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
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If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the .
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2 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 9:18 1 Corinthians 9:15 2 Corinthians 11:7-10 Acts 20:31-34 Luke 11:52 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 Nehemiah 4:8 1 Corinthians 4:11-12 2 Corinthians 11:20 1 Thessalonians 2:6-9 1 Corinthians 9:2 Genesis 24:56 2 Corinthians 6:3 Romans 15:22 Acts 18:3 2 Thessalonians 3:8-9 1 Corinthians 6:7 2 Corinthians 12:13-14 - 13 Do you not that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who at the all alike share with the ?
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In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.
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- 15 But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.
- 16 If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas for me, if I fail to preach it!
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And if I preach willingly, I receive my wages; but if against my will, a stewardship has nevertheless been entrusted to me.
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Galatians 2:7 Colossians 1:25 1 Corinthians 3:8 1 Corinthians 4:1 1 Corinthians 3:14 Matthew 10:41 Philippians 1:16-17 Ephesians 3:2-8 Isaiah 6:8 Ezekiel 3:14 Matthew 24:25 Exodus 4:13-14 Malachi 1:10 Jonah 1:3 1 Peter 5:2-4 Jonah 4:1-3 Jeremiah 20:9 1 Chronicles 29:9 1 Chronicles 28:9 1 Chronicles 29:5 Nehemiah 11:2 1 Timothy 1:11-13 1 Thessalonians 2:4 1 Corinthians 9:16 Philemon 1:14 Luke 12:42 2 Corinthians 8:12 1 Chronicles 29:14 - 18 What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Messiahian preacher.
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Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the of winning as many converts as possible.
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To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law—although I am not—in order to win those who are under the Law;
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to men without Law as if I were without Law—although I am not without Law in relation to but am abiding in Messiah’s Law—in order to win those who are without Law.
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Romans 2:14 Romans 2:12 Galatians 3:2 Matthew 5:17-20 Romans 7:25 Romans 8:4 Acts 16:4 Ephesians 6:1-3 Acts 21:25 Galatians 5:13-14 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 Titus 2:2-12 Galatians 5:22-23 Psalm 119:32 Galatians 2:12-14 Acts 15:28 Romans 13:8-10 Galatians 2:3-4 1 Corinthians 7:19-22 Romans 7:22 Hebrews 8:10 - 22 To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. To all men I have become all things, in the that in every one of these ways I may some.
- 23 And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.
- 24 Do you not that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
- 25 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
- 26 That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
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but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
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1 Corinthians 8:13 Romans 8:13 2 Corinthians 13:5-6 1 Corinthians 9:25 Colossians 3:5 Romans 6:18-19 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 1 Peter 2:11 Luke 9:25 Matthew 7:21-23 2 Timothy 2:22 Psalm 50:16 Jeremiah 6:30 2 Peter 2:15 Luke 12:45-47 Luke 13:26-27 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 2 Corinthians 6:4-5 2 Corinthians 11:27 1 Corinthians 4:11-12