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1Is there any doubt that I am a free man, any doubt that I am a genuine messenger? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Are not you yourselves samples of my work for the Lord?

2Even if other people should refuse to recognise my divine commission, yet to you at any rate I shall always be a true messenger, for you are a living proof of the Lord's call to me.

3This is my real ground of defence to those who crossexamine me.

4Aren't we allowed to eat and drink?

5May we not travel with a, Christian wife like the other messengers, like other Christian brothers, and like Cephas?

6Are Barnabas and I the only ones not allowed to leave their ordinary work to give time to the ministry?

7Just think for a moment. Does any soldier ever go to war at his own expense? Does any man plant a vineyard and have no share in its fruits? Does the shepherd who tends the flock never taste the milk?

8This is, I know an argument from everyday life, but it is a principle endorsed by the Law.

9For is it not written in the Law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn? Now does this imply merely God's care for oxen,

10or does it include his care for us too? Surely we are included! You even say that the words were written for us. For both the ploughman as he ploughs, and the thresher as he threshes should have some hope of an ultimate share in the harvest.

11If we have sown for you the seed of spiritual things need you be greatly perturbed because we reap some of your material things?

12And if there are others with the right to have these things from you, have not we an even greater right? Yet we have never exercised this right and have put up with all sorts of things so that we might not hinder.

13Are you ignorant of the fact that those who minister sacred things take part of the sacred food of the Temple for their own use, and those who attend the altar have their share of what is placed on the altar?

14On the same principle the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the gospel should receive their livelihood from those who accept the gospel.

15But I have never used any of these privileges, nor am I writing now to suggest that I should be given them. Indeed I would rather die than have anyone make this boast of mine an empty one!

16For I take no special pride in the fact that I preach the gospel. I feel compelled to do so; I should be utterly miserable if I failed to preach it.

17If I do this work because I choose to do so then I am entitled to a reward. But if it is no choice of mine, but a sacred responsibility put upon me,

18what can I expect in the way of reward? This, that when I preach the gospel, I can make it absolutely free of charge, and need not claim what is my rightful due as a preacher.

19For though I am no man's slave, yet I have made myself everyone slave, that I might win more men to Christ.

20To the Jews I was a Jew that I might win the Jews. To those who were under the Law I put myself in the position of being under the Law (although in fact I stand free of it), that I might win those who are under the Law.

21To those who had no Law I myself became like a man without the Law (even though in fact I cannot be a lawless man for I am bound by the law of Christ), so that I might win the men who have no Law.

22To the weak I became a weak man, that I might win the weak. I have, in short, been all things to all sorts of men that by every possible means I might win some to God.

23I do all this for the sake of the gospel; I want to play my part properly.

24Do you remember how, on a racingtrack, every competitor runs, but only one wins the prize? Well, you ought to run with your minds fixed on winning the prize!

25Every competitor in athletic events goes into serious training. Athletes will take tremendous painsfor a fading crown of leaves. But our contest is for a crown that will never fade.

26I run the race then with determination. I am no shadowboxer, I really fight!

27I am my body's sternest master, for fear that when I have preached to others I should myself be disqualified.


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