If I be not an Apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am unto you: for ye are the [a]seal of mine Apostleship in the Lord.

[b]My defense to him that [c]examine me, is this,

[d]Have we not power to [e]eat and to drink?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:2 As a seal whereby it appeareth sufficiently that God is the author of my Apostleship.
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:3 He addeth this by the way, as if he would say, So far it is off, that you may doubt of my Apostleship, that I use it to refute them which call it into controversy, by opposing those things which the Lord hath done by me amongst you.
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:3 Which like Judges examine me and my doings.
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Now touching the matter itself, he saith, Seeing that I am free, and truly an Apostle, why may not I (I say not, eat of all things offered to idols) but be maintained by my labors, yea and keep my wife also, as the residue of the apostles lawfully do, as by name, John and James, the Lord’s cousins, and Peter himself?
  5. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Upon the expense of the Church?

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