1 Coríntios 9:3

3 Esta é a minha defesa para com os que me acusam.

1 Coríntios 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 9:3

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this.
] These words are referred by some to the following, as if the apostle's answer lay in putting the questions he does in the next verses; but they rather seem to belong to the preceding, and the meaning to be this, that when any persons called in question his apostleship, and examined him upon that head, what he thought fit to say in answer to them, and in defence of himself, was by referring them to the famous church at Corinth, who were as particular persons, and as a church, his work in the Lord, and everyone of them as so many seals of his apostleship; he being the first preacher of the Gospel to them, the founder of them as a church, and the instrument of their conversion.

1 Coríntios 9:3 In-Context

1 Não sou eu livre? Não sou apóstolo? Não vi eu a Jesus nosso Senhor? Não sois vós obra minha no Senhor?

2 Se eu não sou apóstolo para os outros, ao menos para vós o sou; porque vós sois o selo do meu apostolado no Senhor.

3 Esta é a minha defesa para com os que me acusam.

4 Não temos nós direito de comer e de beber?

5 Não temos nós direito de levar conosco esposa crente, como também os demais apóstolos, e os irmãos do Senhor, e Cefas?