1 Corinthians 9:1

“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from His mouth.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, having been set apart for the gospel of God,

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.

If I partake with gratefulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.

and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

The signs of a true apostle were worked out among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles.

nor seeking glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you.

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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