TheDivineWatermark said:
Okay, but the
context here isn't merely about "sinning" [I'm not saying it couldn't also involve that, in other cases, somewhere, but I mean in Paul's case (this context)], and the "disqualified" is with regard to those he's preaching to (
in their reception of his message)...
I'm not sure of what you are trying to say. Could you explain more of what you mean?
Sure, I can try.
[the pace of this thread is much too fast, I'm falling so far behind and cannot keep up! lol]
The CONTEXT of 1Cor9 is in an entire section (chpts 9-13, at least, or even the entire epistle, actually) where Paul is vindicating his APOSTLESHIP, and that verse (you put) is in a chpt that STARTS OUT with:
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
2 Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
4 Have we no right to food and to drink?
5 Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6 Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
8 Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
10 Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.
11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
12 If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more?
But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
[note that last verse, in the bold... HERE is the crux of
this context, and the
verse you put forth]