📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 9:1
What does 1 Corinthians 9:1 mean?
"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 Corinthians 9:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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?
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.
My defense to those who examine me is this.
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
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Biblical perspective
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Searching for the meaning behind this number? Amos 9:11 is a genuine prophecy about restoration — God promising to rebuild what has been broken.
Several books of the Bible have a chapter 9, verse 11. Amos 9:11 stands out as a restoration promise that the New Testament connects to the inclusion of all nations.
Amos 9:11
"In that day I will raise up the tent of David who has fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old."
Romans 9:11
"For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls..."
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