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-\v 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my workmanship in the Lord?
+\v 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
-\v 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you. For you are the proof of my apostleship in the Lord.
+\v 2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
 
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 \v 3 This is my defense to those who examine me:
 \v 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
-\v 5 Do we not have the right to take along with us a wife who is a believer, as do the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
+\v 5 Do we not have the right to take along with us a sister wife, as do the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
-\v 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who must work?
+\v 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority to not work?
 
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-\v 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink milk from it?
+\v 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink milk from it?
 \v 8 Do I say these things based on human authority? Does not the law also say this?
 
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 \v 12 If others exercised this right from you, do we not have even more? But we did not claim this right. Instead we endured everything rather than be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
-\v 13 Do you not know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple? Do you not know that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?
+\v 13 Do you not know that those who perform sacred duties get their food from the temple? Do you not know that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?
 \v 14 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living from the gospel.
 
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-\v 15 But I have not claimed any of these rights. And I do not write this so something might be done for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of this boast.
+\v 15 But I have not claimed any of these rights. And I do not write this so something might be done for me. It would be better for me to die than—no one will deprive me of this boast!
 \v 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I must do this. And woe be to me if I do not preach the gospel!
 
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-\v 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if not willingly, I still have a responsibility that was entrusted to me.
+\v 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if not willingly, I still have a stewardship that was entrusted to me.
 \v 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach, I may offer the gospel without charge and so not take full use of my right in the gospel.
 
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 \v 24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run the race, but that only one receives the prize? So run to win the prize.
 \v 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a wreath that is perishable, but we do it to receive one that is imperishable.
-\v 26 Therefore I do not run without purpose or box by beating the air.
+\v 26 Therefore this is how I run, as not without purpose; this is how I box, not as one beating the air.
 \v 27 But I subdue my body and make it a slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself may not be disqualified.
 
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 \v 5 But God was not well pleased with most of them, and their corpses were scattered about in the wilderness.
-\v 6 Now these things were examples for us, so we would not long for evil things as they did.
+\v 6 Now these things were examples for us, so we would not be those who lust for evil things as they lusted.
 
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 \v 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. This is as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
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-\v 14 Therefore, my loved ones, run away from idolatry.
+\v 14 Therefore, my beloved ones, run away from idolatry.
 \v 15 I speak to you as people who have understanding, so you may judge what I say.
 \v 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
 \v 17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we who are many are one body. We all take of one loaf of bread together.
 
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-\v 18 Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
+\v 18 Look at the Israel that is according to the flesh. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
 \v 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything? Or that food sacrificed to an idol is anything?
 
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 \v 24 No one should seek his own good. Instead, each one should seek the good of his neighbor.
 
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-\v 25 You may eat whatever is sold in the market, without questions of conscience.
+\v 25 Eat everything sold in the market without asking questions of conscience.
 \v 26 For "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it."
 \v 27 If an unbeliever invites you to eat a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you without asking questions of conscience.
 
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 \v 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
-\v 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks, or to the church of God.
+\v 32 Be blameless both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God.
-\v 33 I try to please all people in all things. I do not seek my benefit, but that of the many. I do this so that they may be saved.
+\v 33 In this same way I try to please all people in all things. I do not seek my benefit, but that of the many. I do this so that they may be saved.
 
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