📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 9:3
What does 1 Corinthians 9:3 mean?
"My defense to those who examine me is this."
— 1 Corinthians 9:3 (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?
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?
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
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