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1 Corinthians 9:1

Weymouth NT

Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work in the Lord?

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While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, »Set apart for Me, now at once, Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them.«

But the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it; and tearing their clothes they rushed out into the middle of the crowd, exclaiming, »Sirs, why are you doing all this?

At length the people of the city split into parties, some siding with the Jews and some with the Apostles.

The following night the Lord came and stood at Paul's side, and said, »Be of good courage, for as you have borne faithful witness about me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness in Rome.«

»Go,« replied the Lord; »he is a chosen instrument of Mine to carry My name to the Gentiles and to kings and to the descendants of Israel.

So Ananias went and entered the house; and, laying his two hands upon Saul, said, »Saul, brother, the Lord –even Jesus who appeared to you on your journey– has sent me, that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.«

But on the journey, as he was getting near Damascus, suddenly there flashed round him a light from Heaven;

»Who art thou, Lord?« he asked. »I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,« was the reply.

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News,

through whom we have received grace and Apostleship in His service in order to win men to obedience to the faith, among all Gentile peoples,

But to you Gentiles I say that, since I am an Apostle specially sent to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry,

Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God–and our brother Sosthenes:

But now I mean his conscience, not your own. »Why, on what ground,« you may object, »is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?

If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?«

But if any one is inclined to be contentious on the point, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.

Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ, let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles.

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead–

Christ having made us gloriously free–stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.

and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

of which I have been appointed a preacher, Apostle and teacher, to the Gentiles.




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