1 Corinthians 9:2

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  • 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
  • 2 Cor 12:12 : 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

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  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1 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?

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3 My defense to those who examine me is this.

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-6
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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

    6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

  • 2 Cor 12:11-13
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    11 I 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.

    12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
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    11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • Rom 9:1-2
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    1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

    2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

  • 1 Cor 9:15-19
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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

    19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

    8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

    9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

  • 2 Cor 3:2
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    2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

  • Gal 2:8
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    8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

  • 1 Tim 2:7
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    7 to 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.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

    11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  • Rom 1:9
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    9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

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    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • Gal 4:12
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    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • Phil 1:7
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    7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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    1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • Eph 3:1
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    1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 1 Cor 3:4-5
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    4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

    5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

  • Phil 1:17
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    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

  • 1 Cor 1:12
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    12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • Rom 11:13
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    13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

  • 1 Tim 1:12
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    12 And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

  • Gal 4:15
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    15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Gal 2:6
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    6 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

  • Eph 1:15
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    15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.