1C 9 Quote Cards

Question 1

1C 9:24

Answer 1

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Question 2

1C 9:2

Answer 2

Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Question 3

1C 9:22

Answer 3

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

Question 4

1C 9:1

Answer 4

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?

Question 5

1C 9:7

Answer 5

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?

Question 6

1C 9:23

Answer 6

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

Question 7

1C 9:18

Answer 7

What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

Question 8

1C 9:12

Answer 8

If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

Question 9

1C 9:16

Answer 9

For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Question 10

1C 9:15

Answer 10

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast.

Question 11

1C 9:14

Answer 11

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

Question 12

1C 9:13

Answer 12

Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

Question 13

1C 9:26

Answer 13

Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.

Question 14

1C 9:9

Answer 14

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

Question 15

1C 9:27

Answer 15

No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

Question 16

1C 9:3

Answer 16

This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me.

Question 17

1C 9:21

Answer 17

To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.

Question 18

1C 9:8

Answer 18

Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

Question 19

1C 9:20

Answer 19

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.

Question 20

1C 9:19

Answer 20

Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

Question 21

1C 9:4

Answer 21

Don’t we have the right to food and drink?

Question 22

1C 9:11

Answer 22

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

Question 23

1C 9:5

Answer 23

Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

Question 24

1C 9:25

Answer 24

Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

Question 25

1C 9:10

Answer 25

Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

Question 26

1C 9:6

Answer 26

Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?

Question 27

1C 9:17

Answer 27

If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.