---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 1 Corinthians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 9
verse_count: 27
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 1 Corinthians, chap. 9, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 1 Corinthians 9

*The minister to live by the gospel— — The Christian race.*

**1** Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
**2** If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
**3** Mine answer to them that do examine me is this;
**4** Have we not power to eat and to drink?
**5** Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
**6** Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
**7** Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
**8** Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
**9** For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
**10** Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plougheth should plough in hope: and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
**11** If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
**12** If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
**13** Do ye not know that the which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
**14** Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
**15** But I have used none of these things; neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me; for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
**16** For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
**17** For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
**18** What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
**19** For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
**20** And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, asunder the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
**21** To them that are without law, as without law, (bein-g not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) ihat I might gain them that are without law.
**22** To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
**23** And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
**24** Know ye not that they which run in a race all run, but only one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
**25** And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
**26** I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air;
**27** But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.