1 Paul said: I am free. I help Jesus. I saw Jesus. You are my work with Jesus. ✝️ 2 If some say I am not a helper, you know I am. You show my work is real in Jesus. ✝️ 3 This is what I say to people who ask hard things about me. ️ 4 We can eat and drink when we work for you. 5 We can have a wife who loves Jesus, like other Jesus helpers, like Jesus’ brothers, and Peter. 6 Is it just Barnabas and me who must work to make money? 7 A soldier gets pay. A farmer eats fruit from his plants. A person with sheep drinks milk. 8 This is not just my idea. God’s book says this too. 9 God says, do not cover a cow’s mouth when it works. Let it eat. 10 This is for us too. People who plant and cut food hope for good pay. 11 We gave you Jesus things for your heart. Is it bad if we get food and help from you? 12 Others get help from you. We could too. But we did not take it. We did not want to stop the good news. 13 People who work in God’s house get food from there. 14 Jesus wants people who tell His good news to get help to live. ✝️️ 15 But I did not use this help. I do not want anyone to stop my joy in telling you. 16 I must tell the good news. I have to do it. If I do not, it is bad for me. 17 If I want to do it, I get a gift. If I must do it, it is still my job from God. ️ 18 My gift is this: I tell the good news for free. I do not use my right to get pay. 19 I am free. I choose to serve all people, to help many come to Jesus. ➡️✝️ 20 With Jewish people, I act like them to help them know Jesus. With rule people, I act kind to their rules to help them. 21 With people with no rules, I am with them too, to help them. I still obey God and Jesus. ❤️✝️ 22 With weak ones, I am gentle. I try many ways to save some. I want all to know Jesus. ✝️ 23 I do this for the good news, so I can share the gift with them. 24 Many run in a race. One gets a prize. You all run to win for Jesus. ♂️ 25 Runners train hard. They want a small prize. We want a prize that lasts forever with Jesus. ️♂️✨ 26 I run with a plan. I do not fight the air. I know where to go. ♂️➡️ 27 I tell my body no. I make it obey. I do not want to teach and then do bad.