Verse 2

1 Corinthians 9:2

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

2 And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Original Language Text

greek

εἰ ἄλλοις οὐκ εἰμὶ ἀπόστολος, ἀλλά γε ὑμῖν εἰμι, ἡ γὰρ σφραγίς ⸂μου τῆς⸃ ἀποστολῆς ὑμεῖς ἐστε ἐν κυρίῳ.

English Translation

If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 Am not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Yashua (Jesus) our Lord? Are not you my w... Focus ↗

2 And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship...

3 My defence with them that do examine me is this. Focus ↗

4 Have not we power to eat and to drink? Focus ↗

5 Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the bre... Focus ↗

6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this? Focus ↗

7 Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of... Focus ↗

8 Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say these things? Focus ↗

9 For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out t... Focus ↗

10 Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that p... Focus ↗

11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things? Focus ↗

12 If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used thi... Focus ↗

13 Know you not, that they who work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place; and t... Focus ↗

14 So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel. Focus ↗

15 But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so do... Focus ↗

16 For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me... Focus ↗

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committ... Focus ↗

18 What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I a... Focus ↗

19 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. Focus ↗

20 And I became to the Jews, a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: Focus ↗

21 To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,)... Focus ↗

22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might... Focus ↗

23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof. Focus ↗

24 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize ? So run th... Focus ↗

25 And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed tha... Focus ↗

26 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air: Focus ↗

27 But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others,... Focus ↗

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