Tyndale - I Corinthians - 9

9:1  Am I not an Apostle? am I not fre? have I not sene Iesus Christ oure lorde?

9:2  Are not ye my worke in the lorde. Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the lorde.

9:3  Myne answer to them that axe me is this.

9:4  Have we not power to eate and to drynke?

9:5  Ether have we not power to leade about a sister to wyfe as wel as other Apostles and as the brethren of the lorde and Cephas?

9:6  Ether only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?

9:7  who goeth a warfare eny tyme at his awne cost? who planteth a vynearde and eateth not of the frute? Who fedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylke?

9:8  Saye I these thinges after the manner of men? Or sayth not the lawe the same also?

9:9  For it ys written in the lawe of Moses. Thou shall not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take thought for oxen?

9:10  Ether sayth he it not all to gedder for oure sakes? For oure sakes no doute this is written: that he which eareth shuld eare in hope: and that he which thressheth in hope shuld be parttaker of his hope.

9:11  Yf we sowe vnto you spirituall thynges: is it a greate thynge yf we reepe youre carnall thynges

9:12  Yf other be parttakers of this power over you? wherfore are not we rather.Neverthelesse we have not vsed this power: but suffre all thinges lest we shuld hynder the gospell of Christ.

9:13  Do ye not vnderstoder how that they which minister in the temple have their fyndynge of the temple? And they which wayte at the aulter are partakers with ye aultre?

9:14  Even so also dyd ye lorde ordayne that they which preache ye gospell shuld live of the gospell.

9:15  But I have vsed none of these thinges. Nether wrote I these thinges that it shuld be so done vnto me. For it were better for me to dye the yt eny man shnld take this reioysinge from me

9:16  In that I preache the gospell I have nothinge to reioyce of. For necessite is put vnto me. Wo is it vnto me yf I preache not the gospell.

9:17  If I do it with a good will I have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynst my will an office is committed vnto me.

9:18  What is my rewarde then? Verely that whe I preache the gospell I make the gospell of Christ fre yt I misvse not myne auctorite in ye gospel

9:19  For though I be fre from all men yet have I made my silfe servaunt vnto all men that I myght wynne the moo.

9:20  Vnto the Iewes I became as a Iewe to winne ye Iewes. To the that were vnder the lawe was I made as though I had bene vnder the lawe to wynne the that were vnder the lawe.

9:21  To them that were without lawe be ca I as though I had bene without lawe (whe I was not without lawe as perteyninge to god but vnder a lawe as concerninge Christ) to wynne the that were without lawe.

9:22  To the weake became I as weake to wynne the weake. In all thinge I fassioned my silfe to all men to save at ye lest waye some.

9:23  And this I do for the gospels sake that I might have my parte therof.

9:24  Perceave ye not how that they which runne in a course runne all yet but one receaveth the rewarde. So runne that ye maye obtayne.

9:25  Euery man yt proveth masteryes abstaineth from all thinges. And they do it to obtayne a corruptible croune: but we to obtayne an vncorruptible croune:

9:26  I therfore so runne not as at an vncertayne thinge. So fyght I not as one yt beateth the ayer:

9:27  but I tame my body and bringe it into subieccio lest after that I have preached to other I my silfe shuld be a castawaye.