1 Corinthians 9
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1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
5 Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
6 Or do Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?
7 Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?
8 Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?
10 Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.
11 If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
12 If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?
14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!
16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.
18 What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.
19 Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.
20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law—though I myself am not under the law —to win those under the law.
21 To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.
22 To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.
23 Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.
24 Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
25 Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.
26 Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
27 Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:1-
Two Goals:
Two Goals:
1: Learn methods of Bible study
2: Understand the passage
Learn Methods of Bible Study
Learn Methods of Bible Study
her·me·neu·tics
/ˌhərməˈn(y)o͞odiks/
noun
hermeneutics
the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.
We believe scripture has one ultimate meaning. God has one meaning for each scripture and we are trying to interpret what God is saying. The Bible has many different applications but one ultimate meaning.
Hermeneutics is the interpretation of scripture to understand what God is trying to say to us.
Understand the Passage
Understand the Passage
We want to understand through methods of Bible study what is trying to say. We then want to apply the passage to our lives.
Methods of Bible Study
Methods of Bible Study
22 To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.
This is a verse that is often taken out of context. To take a verse out of context means that we remove it from where it is in scripture and make the verse say what we want it to say and not what God desires for it to mean.
Another example of this is:
13 I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
Baseball I can do all things through Christ
12 I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need.
Philippians 4:
22 To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.
Out of context some use this verse to live a life of corruption so that they can reach the corrupt.
If I was to pull it out of context then I could say if you want to reach the drunk then you need to become drunk or if you want to reach those who get high you need to become high.
For those who are dating, could say I want to reach the boys or girls who don’t know Jesus so I am going to go act like them so that I can save them and reach them. I am going to missionary date.
This verse does not back up you idea that I am going to date a loser so that I can make them better. I am going to become a loser to win a loser to Jesus. This is not what Paul is saying.
This verse is often used to justify a lifestyle that is not Biblical so that the person quoting the verse can live an unrighteous life so that they may live how they want.
So let’s unpack this verse and also seek to understand the passage.
Methods of Bible Study
Methods of Bible Study
Read the Bible verse
22 To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.
Read the Bible verse
2. Read the verse Before it and the verse after it
1 Corinthians 9:
21 To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.
23 Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.
23 Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.
1 Corinthians 9:
Read the Bible verse
24 Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
2. Read the verse Before it and the verse after it
3. Read the Chapter
1 Corinthians 9:
We have looked at the verse before it and the verse after it. We have read the entire chapter and so now we try and see where this fits within the entire chapter.
Read the Bible verse
2. Read the verse Before it and the verse after it
3. Read the Chapter
4. Understand where the verse fits with the entire book of 1 Corinthians
Last week, Cameron taught from and something that has stuck with me all week was the point that Cameron made on the rights that Jesus gave up. He gave up the right to grow old on this earth, He gave up the right to have children on earth, he gave up the right to get married, he gave up the right to be wealthy and rich on earth and seek material riches. Jesus gave up so many rights when we think of it.
It would be easy for us to take and believe this verse is about us exercising our rights as believers to become all things so that we can win lost people.
Read the Bible verse
2. Read the verse Before it and the verse after it
3. Read the Chapter
4. Understand where the verse fits with the entire book of 1 Corinthians
5. Understand how this verse fits with the entire New Testament
6. Understand how the verse fits with the entire Bible
Understand the Passage
Understand the Passage
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
4 Questions Paul ask that he would answer with a yes on each question.
2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
1 Corinthians 9:2-
4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
5 Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
6 Or do Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?
7 Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?
1 Corinthians 9:4-
Paul is saying that he has a right to receive what he eats and drinks by preaching the Gospel. He has the right to receive pay from preaching the Gospel and this pay would pay for what he eats and drinks.
v. 5 Not only this but if I was accompanied by a wife she too has the right to eat and drink by what I am paid for preaching the Gospel.
Paul was not married but he references Peter who was married.
So he has the right to have his food and drink paid for by the preaching of the Gospel and also if he was to have a wife she too has the right to receive her food and drink from the preaching of the Gospel.
v.6 He says Barnabas and I don’t have a right to earn a living from the Gospel because we are working to support ourselves in other means. We have the right to receive pay for preaching the Gospel but we use other methods.
v.7 The soldier goes to war and is paid, the one who plants a vineyard eats its fruit. The shepherd drinks the milk from the flock.
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?
10 Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.
11 If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
12 If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:9-12
The old Testament
We have this right but we have not used the right So that We will not hinder the Gospel of Christ
1 Corinthians: An Introduction and Commentary 1. Paul’s Rights (9:1–14)
hinder is unusual (here only in the New Testament). It means ‘a cutting into’, and was used of breaking up a road to prevent the enemy’s advance.
1 corinthians 9:13-
13 Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?
14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.
I have not exercised these rights
15 But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!
16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.
18 What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:15-
19 Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.
20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law—though I myself am not under the law —to win those under the law.
21 To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.
22 To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.
23 Now I do all this because of the gospel, so I may become a partner in its benefits.
1 Corinthians 9:19-
24 Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
25 Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.
26 Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
27 Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9: