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 By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too much upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the service of idols and from things offered to idols. 10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. 10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea: