◄ 1 Corinthians 9:2 ►
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Good News Translation
Even if others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do! Because of your life in union with the Lord you yourselves are proof of the fact that I am an apostle.

New Revised Standard Version
If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Others may think that I am not an apostle, but you are proof that I am an apostle to you.

New American Bible
Although I may not be an apostle for others, certainly I am for you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you? . . .

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.

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. 3My defence with them that do examine me is this.…
Cross References
John 3:33
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

Acts 1:25
To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.

1 Corinthians 9:3
My defence with them that do examine me is this.

2 Corinthians 3:2
You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

1 Corinthians 9:1
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