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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369751" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: 1 Corinthians 9</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Rights of an Apostle: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">1Am I not free, an apostle? <br>Have I not seen Jesus, our Lord? <br>Aren’t you the fruit of my labor, <br>For Jesus Christ, my savior, Lord? <br>2 Although to others not, may be <br>I am an apostle to you! <br>You’re seal of my apostleship. <br>3 This is my one defense to those <br>Who sit in judgment upon me. <br>4Don’t we have right to food and drink? <br> 5Do not we have the right to take <br>A wife believing, that’s with us, <br>As do the other apostles, <br>The Lord's brothers and Cephas too? <br>6 Or only I and Barnabas <br>Must have to work for a living? <br>7Who serves as soldier without pay? <br> Who plants a vineyard on his own <br>And not ingest its luscious grapes? <br>Who tends a flock, drink not the milk? <br>8Do I say this merely from just<br>A human point of view, tell me? <br>Does not the Law say just the same? <br>9For, it is writ in Mosaic Law: <br>'Do not muzzle an ox while ’tis <br>Still treading out the grain for you.'<br>Is it of oxen only that <br>Then, God is so concerned about? <br>10 He says this for us, does not He? <br>Yes, this was written just for us, <br>Because when plough-man ploughs the field, <br> And thresher threshes, they do so <br>With hope, of share in harvest too. <br>11If we’ve sown seed in you spiritual, <br>Is it too much if we then reap <br>A material harvest from you? <br>12 If others have this right from you, <br>Shouldn’t we have it, then all the more? <br>But we didn’t use this right at all. <br>And on the contrary, we put <br>Up with all things rather than to <br>Hinder gospel of Jesus Christ. <br>13Do you not know that those who work <br>In temples get their food from them, <br>And those who serve at altars share <br>Whatev’r is offered upon them? <br>14 Similarly, the Lord commands <br>That those who preach the gospel should <br>Receive their living from the same. <br>15 But I haven’t used all of these rights. <br>And I don’t write this in the hope <br>That you will do such things for me. <br>I rather would die than have one <br>Deprive me of this boast some day. <br>16Yet, when I preach the gospel then, <br>I cannot boast: I have to preach. <br>Woe upon me if I do not! <br>17 If I do preach voluntarily, <br>I have reward awaiting me; <br>If not voluntarily then, <br>I’m discharging the trust on me. <br>18 What then is my reward? Just this: <br>In preaching gospel I offer <br>It free of charge, and therefore don’t <br>Make use of my rights doing so.<br>19 Though I am free, slave of no man, <br>I make myself a slave to all, <br>To win the many, possible. <br>20 To Jews, Jew-like, I too became, <br>To win over the hearts of Jews. <br>To those under the law, I turned<br> Like one under the law like them <br>(Although I’m not under the law) , <br>So as to win those under law. <br>21To those who did not have the law, <br>I became like one without law <br>(Though I’m not free from laws of God <br>And I am under Christ's tenets) , <br>So as to win those without law. <br>22 To weak persons, I became weak, <br>To win the weak. I have become <br>All things to men so that by all <br>Means possible, I might save some. <br>23 I do all this for gospel’s sake, <br>So that I may share its blessings. <br>24Do you not know that in a race, <br>Though all runners participate, <br>One only gets the prize at last? <br>Run in a way to get the prize. <br>25 All those who compete in the games <br>Are given training equally. <br>They train to get a crown on earth <br>That will not last for very long; <br>But we do it to get a crown <br>That lasts forever and ever. <br>26 Therefore I don’t run like a man <br>Who runs quite aimlessly in life; <br>I don’t fight like a man who beats <br>The air which he just cannot see. <br>27 I beat my body to enslave<br> It, and when I’ve preached to others, <br>I myself will qualified <br>To get the prize that’s meant for it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 8-3-2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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1Am I not free, an apostle? 
Have I not seen Jesus, our Lord? 
Aren’t you the fruit of my labor, 
For Jesus Christ, my savior, Lord? 
2 Although to others not, may be 
I am an apostle to you! 
You’re seal of my apos..."></div>
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