1   Am ^note I not an Apostle? am I not free? ^note haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke ^note in the Lord?

2   If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the ^note seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.

3    ^noteMy defence to them that ^note examine mee, is this,

4    ^noteHaue we not power to ^note eat & to drinke?

5   Or haue we not power to lead about a wife being a ^note sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6   Or I only and Barnabas, haue not we power ^note not to worke?

7    ^noteWho ^note goeth a warfare any time at his owne coste? who planteth a vineyarde, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke?

8    ^noteSay I these thinges ^note according to man? saith not the Lawe the same also?

9   For it is written in the Lawe of Moses, ^note Thou shalt not mussell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne: doeth God take care for ^note oxen?

10   Either saith hee it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes no doubt it is written, that he which eareth, should eare in hope, & that he that thresheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope.

True ministers.

11    ^{note note}If wee haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?

12    ^noteIf others with you bee partakers of this ^note power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.

13    ^noteDoe ye not knowe, that they which minister about the ^note holy things, eate of the ^note things of the Temple? and they which waite at the altar, are ^note partakers with the altar?

14   So also hath the Lorde ordeined, that they which preach þe; Gospel, should liue ^note of the Gospel.

15   But I haue vsed none of these things: ^note neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

16   For though I preach the Gospel, I haue nothing to reioyce of: for necessitie is laid vpon me, and woe is vnto me, if I preach not the Gospel.

17   For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me.

18   What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ ^note free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in þe; Gospel.

19   For though I bee free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruant vnto all men, that I might winne the moe.

20    ^noteAnd vnto the Iewes, I become as a Iewe, that I may winne the Iewes: to them that are vnder the ^note Lawe, as though I were vnder the Lawe, that I may winne them that are vnder the Lawe:

21   To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

22   To the weake I become as weake, that I may winne the weake: I am made all thinges to ^note all men, that I might by all meanes saue some.

23   And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with ^note you.

24    ^noteKnowe ye not, that they which runne in a race, runne all, yet one receiueth the price? so runne that ye may obtaine.

25   And euery man that proueth masteries, ^note abstaineth fr&obar; all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible. Olde examples.

26   I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

27   But I beate downe my ^note body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be ^note reproued.

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