1 Corintios 9:4

4 Qué, ¿no tenemos potestad de comer y de beber

1 Corintios 9:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we not power to eat and to drink?
] Having proved his apostleship, he proceeds to establish his right to a maintenance as a Gospel minister; which he expresses by various phrases, and confirms by divers arguments: by a "power to eat and drink", he does not mean the common power and right of mankind to perform such actions, which everyone has, provided he acts temperately, and to the glory of God; nor a liberty of eating and drinking things indifferent, or which were prohibited under the ceremonial law; but a comfortable livelihood at the public charge, or at the expense of the persons to whom he ministered; and he seems to have in view the words of Christ, ( Luke 10:7 Luke 10:8 ) .

1 Corintios 9:4 In-Context

2 Si a los otros no soy apóstol, a vosotros ciertamente lo soy; porque el sello de mi apostolado sois vosotros en el Señor

3 Esta es mi respuesta a los que me preguntan

4 Qué, ¿no tenemos potestad de comer y de beber

5 ¿No tenemos potestad de traer con nosotros una hermana por mujer también como los otros apóstoles, y los hermanos del Señor, y Cefas

6 ¿O sólo yo y Bernabé no tenemos potestad de no trabajar