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AM I not an Apostle? am I not fre? ha∣ve I not sene Iesus Christ oure lorde? [ A] Are not ye my worke in the lorde. Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other / yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostle shippe are ye in the lorde. Myne answer to them that
axe me / is this. Have we not power to eate & to drynke? Ether have we not power to leade about a sister to wyfe as wel as other Apost¦les / and as the brethren of the lorde / and Ce∣phas? Ether only I and Barnabas have not power this to do? who goeth a warfare eny tyme at his awne cost? who planteth a vyne∣arde & eateth not of the frute? Who fedeth a flocke and eateth not of the mylke?
Saye I these thinges after the manner of [ B] men? Or sayth not the lawe the same also? For it ys written in the lawe of Moses. Thou shall not mosell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. Doth God take thought for oxen? Ether sayth he it not all to gedder for oure sakes? For oure sakes no dou¦te this is written: that he which eareth / shuld* 1.1 eare in hope: and that he which thressheth in hope / shuld beparttaker of his hope. Yf we sowe vnto you spirituall thynges: is it a grea¦te thynge yf we reepe youre carnall thynges Yf other be parttakers of this power over you? wherfore are not we rather.
Neverthelesse we have not vsed this po∣wer: but suffre all thinges lest we shuld hyn∣der the gospell of Christ. Do ye not vnderstō¦der how that they which minister in the tem¦ple / have their fyndynge of the temple? And they which wayte at the aulter / are partakers with ye aultre? Even so also dyd ye lorde orday¦ne / that they which preache ye gospell / shuld live of the gospell. But I have vs••d none of these thinges.
Nether wrote I these thinges that it shuld [ C] be so done vnto me. For it were better for me to dye / thē yt eny man shuld take this reioysin¦ge from me. In that I preache the gospell / I have nothinge to reioyce of. For necessite is put vnto me. Wo is it vnto me yf I preache not the gospell. If I do it with a good will / I* 1.2 have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynst my will / an office is committed vnto me. What is my rewarde then? Verely that whē I prea¦che the gospell / I make the gospell of Christ fre / ye I misvse not myne auctorite in ye gospel
For though I be fre from all men / yet have [ D] I made my silfe servaunt vnto all men / that I myght wynne the mo••. Vnto the Iewes / * 1.3 I be came as a Iewe / to winne ye Iewes. To thē that were vnder the lawe / was I made as though I had bene vnder the lawe / to wynne thē that were vnder the lawe. To them that were with out lawe / be cā I as though I had bene with out lawe (whē I was not without lawe as perteyninge to god / but vnder a lawe as concerninge Christ) to wynne thē that we¦re with out lawe. To the weake became I as weake / to wynne the weake. In all thing{is} I [ E] fassioned my silfe to all men / to save at ye lest waye some. And this I do for the gospels▪ sa∣ke / that I might have my parte therof.
✚ Perceave ye not how that they which run¦ne in a course / runne all / yet but one receaveth the rewarde. So runne that ye maye obtayne. Euery man yt proveth masteryes / abstaineth from all thinges. And they do it to obtayne a
corruptible croune: but we to obtayne an vn∣corruptible croune: I therfore so runne / not as at an vncertayne thinge. So fyght I / not as one ye beateth the ayer: but I tame my bo∣dy and bringe it into subiecciō / lest after that I have preached to other / I my silfe shuld be a castawaye.
The prea¦cher hath ryght to chalenge a lyuynge for hys la¦boure.
He that worketh of loue to his neyb∣oure / ha¦th his re∣warde.
what loue maketh a man do.