1 Corinthians 9:1
Good News Translation
Am I not a free man? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus our Lord? And aren't you the result of my work for the Lord?

New Revised Standard Version
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Contemporary English Version
I am free. I am an apostle. I have seen the Lord Jesus and have led you to have faith in him.

New American Bible
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

I not an.

1 Corinthians 9:2,3 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. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,

1 Corinthians 15:8,9 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine. . . .

Acts 9:15 And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

Acts 13:2 And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them.

Acts 14:4 And the multitude of the city was divided. And some of them indeed held with the Jews, but some with the apostles.

Acts 22:14,15 But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth. . . .

Acts 16:17,18 This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of salvation. . . .

Romans 1:1,5 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. . . .

Romans 11:13 For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

2 Corinthians 11:5 For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:11,12 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. . . .

Galatians 1:1,15-17 Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead: . . .

Galatians 2:7,8 But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision. . . .

1 Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11 Wherein I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles.

Titus 1:1-3 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness: . . .

am I not free.

1 Corinthians 9:19 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

have.

1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine.

Acts 9:3,5,17 And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him. . . .

Acts 18:9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear, but speak. And hold not thy peace,

Acts 22:6-8,14-21 And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light: . . .

Acts 23:11 And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said: Be constant: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

Acts 26:16-18 But rise up and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I appeared to thee, that I may make thee a minister and a witness of those things which thou hast seen and of those things wherein I will appear to thee, . . .

are.

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children. . . .

Acts 18:8-11 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and were baptized. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:1 And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

Context
The Rights of an Apostle
1Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? 2And 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.…
Cross References
Acts 9:3
And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him.

Acts 9:17
And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Acts 14:14
Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending their clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying,

Acts 18:9
And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear, but speak. And hold not thy peace,

Acts 22:14
But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth.

Acts 22:18
And saw him saying unto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

Acts 23:11
And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said: Be constant: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.

1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 4:15
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

1 Corinthians 9:19
For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 10:29
Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

1 Corinthians 10:30
If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the Church of God.

1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine.

2 Corinthians 10:7
See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any man trust to himself, that he is Christ's let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also.

2 Corinthians 12:12
Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others.

1 Timothy 2:7
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11
Wherein I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 8:13
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