What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
9:8
ቦኑለአድልዎለሰብእእብልአኮኑኦሪትኒይቤከመዝ።
我說這話，豈是照人的意見；律法不也是這樣說嗎？
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
9:11
ወእመሰንሕነዘራዕነለክሙዘመንፈስቅዱስዐቢይኑውእቱሶበንሕነነአርርለክሙዘሥጋሰብእ።
我們若把屬靈的種子撒在你們中間，就是從你們收割奉養肉身之物，這還算大事嗎？
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
9:16
ወእመኒመሀርኩኢይከውነኒምዝጋናእስመበትእዛዝገበርኩወእመኒኢመሀርኩአሌሊተ።
我傳福音原沒有可誇的，因為我是不得已的。若不傳福音，我便有禍了。
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.