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1 Corinthians 9:13-27 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

13. Do you not know that those serving the Set-apart Place eat from the Set-apart Place, and those attending at the altar have their share of the offerings of the altar?

14. So also the Master instituted that those announcing the Good News should live from the Good News.

15. But I have used none of these, nor have I written this that it should be done so to me. For it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting empty.

16. For if I bring the Good News, it is no boasting for me, for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not bring the Good News!

17. For if I do this voluntarily I have a reward, but if not voluntarily, I am entrusted with a management.

18. What then is my reward? That in bringing the Good News, I should offer the Good News of Messiah without cost, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

19. For though I am free from all, I made myself a servant to all, in order to win more,

20. and to the Yehuḏim I became as a Yehuḏite, that I might win Yehuḏim; to those who are under Torah, as under Torah, so as to win those who are under Torah;

21. to those without Torah, as without Torah – not being without Torah toward Elohim, but under Torah of Messiah – so as to win those who are without Torah.

22. To the weak I became as weak, so as to win the weak. To all men I have become all, so as to save some, by all means.

23. And I do this because of the Good News, so as to become a fellow-partaker with it.

24. Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it.

25. And everyone who competes controls himself in every way. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible crown.

26. Therefore I run accordingly, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.

27. But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, so that when I have proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.

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