1 Corinthians 9:1
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The Rights of an Apostle
9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?(A)
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Acts 9:17
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17 So Ananias went and entered the house. He laid his hands on Saul[a] and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”(A)
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1 Timothy 2:7
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7 For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth;[a] I am not lying), a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:6
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6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
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Acts 23:11
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11 That night the Lord stood near him and said, “Keep up your courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, so you must bear witness also in Rome.”(A)
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Acts 9:3
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3 Now as he was going along and approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.(A)
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Titus 1:1-3
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Salutation
1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness, 2 in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began(A)— 3 in due time he revealed his word through the proclamation with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior,(B)
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1 Corinthians 9:19
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19 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more.(A)
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2 Timothy 1:11
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11 For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,[a](A)
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Galatians 5:1
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Galatians 1:15-17
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15 But when the one[a] who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace was pleased(A) 16 to reveal his Son to me,[b] so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with any human,(B) 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterward I returned to Damascus.
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2 Corinthians 6:1
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6 As we work together with him,[a] we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.(A)
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- 6.1 Gk As we work together
Romans 1:1
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Salutation
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
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Galatians 1:1
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Salutation
1 Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
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1 Thessalonians 2:6
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6 nor did we seek praise from mortals, whether from you or from others,(A)
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Galatians 2:7-8
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7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised(A) 8 (for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the gentiles),
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2 Corinthians 12:11-12
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Paul’s Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.(A) 12 The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, signs and wonders and mighty works.(B)
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2 Corinthians 11:5
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5 I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.(A)
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1 Corinthians 15:8-9
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8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.(A) 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.(B)
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1 Corinthians 9:2-3
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2 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.(A)
3 This is my defense to those who would examine me.
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1 Corinthians 4:14-15
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Fatherly Admonition
14 I am not writing this to make you ashamed but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.(A)
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1 Corinthians 1:1
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Salutation
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
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Romans 11:13
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13 Now I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I celebrate my ministry(A)
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Romans 1:5
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5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the gentiles for the sake of his name,(A)
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Acts 26:16-18
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16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me[a] and to those in which I will appear to you.(A) 17 I will rescue you from your people and from the gentiles—to whom I am sending you(B) 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’(C)
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