1 Corinthians 9
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1 Corinthians 9:1-7

1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord? 2Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3This is my defense to those who scrutinize me: 4Have we no right to food and to drink? 5Have we no right to take along a believing wife,1 as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?2 6Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?3

7Who 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?

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  1. 1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Literally take along a sister—a wife— ↩
  2. 2. 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter ↩
  3. 3. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Literally Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have authority not to work? ↩

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