New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 9:1-7

1Am I not 1free? Am I not an 2apostle? Have I not 3seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not 4my work in the Lord? 2If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the 5seal of my 6apostleship in the Lord.

3My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 7 8Do we not have a right to eat and drink? 5 9 10Do we not have a right to take along a 11believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the 12brothers of the Lord and 13Cephas? 6Or do only 14 15Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? 7Who at any time serves 16as a soldier at his own expense? Who 17plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not 18use the milk of the flock?

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Cor 9:19; 10:29 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 9:1 Acts 14:14; Rom 1:1; 2 Cor 12:12; 1 Thess 2:6; 1 Tim 2:7; 2 Tim 1:11 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 9:1 Acts 9:3, 17; 18:9; 22:14, 18; 23:11; 1 Cor 15:8 ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Cor 3:6; 4:15 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 9:2 John 3:33; 2 Cor 3:2f ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 9:2 Acts 1:25 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it? ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 9:4 1 Cor 9:14; 1 Thess 2:6, 9; 2 Thess 3:8f ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it? ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 9:5 1 Cor 7:7f ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as wife ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 12:46 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 8:14; John 1:42 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of ↩

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