My defense to those who examine me is this:
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 9:3 in context
1 Corinthians 9:1–6
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Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
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If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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My defense to those who examine me is this:
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Have we no right to eat and to drink?
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Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
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Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
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