1 Corinthians 9:1

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: