9:7. Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 9:8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say; these things? 9:9. 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? 9:10. Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit. 9:11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things? 9:12. If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 9:13. Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar? 9:14. So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel. 9:15. But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die rather than that any man should make my glory void. 9:16. For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. It is no glory... That is, I have nothing to glory of. 9:17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me. 9:18. What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 9:19. For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. 9:20. And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: 9:22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all. 9:23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof. 9:24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain. 9:25. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. 9:26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air. 9:27. But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway. I chastise, etc... Here St. Paul shews the necessity of self-denial and mortification, to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires. 1 Corinthians Chapter 10