1 Corinthians 9:1

Paul asserts his freedom and apostleship: he has seen the risen Lord, and the Corinthians themselves are the fruit of his ministry. His rights are real, which makes his willingness to forgo them all the more striking.

Cross-references · 33

• Acts 9:17Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
• 1 Cor 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• Acts 9:3As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
• Acts 23:11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
• 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• 1 Tim 2:7to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
• Rom 1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
• Gal 1:15–17But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
• 2 Tim 1:11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Titus 1:1–3Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Gal 5:1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• 2 Cor 12:11–12I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
• Gal 1:1Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
• Acts 22:14–21He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• Acts 26:16–18But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;
• Acts 9:5He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
• Rom 1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
• Acts 18:8–11Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
• 1 Cor 1:1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
• 2 Cor 11:5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
• Gal 2:7–8but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
• Acts 13:2As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
• Acts 16:17–18Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
• Rom 11:13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
• Acts 14:14But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
• 1 Th 2:6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• Acts 22:6–8As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.
• 1 Cor 15:8–9and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
• Acts 14:4But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
• 1 Cor 9:2–3If 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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