1 Corinthians 9:7-27 Who ever goes to war at his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

ABU⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Who ever goes to war at his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock? ⁸ Say I these things as a man? Or does not the law also say these things? ⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out the grain. Is it for the oxen that God cares? ¹⁰ Or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For, for our sakes it was written; that he who plows ought to plow in hope; and he who threshes, in hope of partaking. ¹¹ If we sowed for you, the things that are spiritual, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? ¹² If others partake of this power over you, do not we still more? But we used not this power; but we bear all things, that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Do ye not know that they who minister about the holy things eat of the temple, and they who wait at the altar partake with the altar? ¹⁴ So also did the Lord appoint to those who preach the gospel, to live by the gospel. ¹⁵ But I have used none of these things; and I wrote not these things, that it should be so done to me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make my glorying void. ¹⁶ For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel! ¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That, in preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, that I use not to the full my power in the gospel. ¹⁹ For being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰ And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, that I might gain those under law; ²¹ to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law. ²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all, that I may by all means save some. ²³ And all things I do for the gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others. ²⁴ Know ye not that they who run in a race, all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. ²⁵ And every one who contends for the prize is temperate in all things; they indeed to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ²⁶ I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; I so fight, as not beating the air. ²⁷ But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest haply, having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.