1 Corintios 9:3

3 Esta es mi respuesta a los que cuestionan mi autoridad.

1 Corintios 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 Corintios 9:3 In-Context

1 Pablo renuncia a sus derechos
¿Acaso no soy tan libre como cualquier otro? ¿No soy apóstol? ¿No he visto a Jesús nuestro Señor con mis propios ojos? ¿No es gracias a mi trabajo que ustedes pertenecen al Señor?

2 Aunque otros piensen que no soy apóstol, ciertamente para ustedes lo soy. Ustedes mismos son la prueba de que soy apóstol del Señor.

3 Esta es mi respuesta a los que cuestionan mi autoridad.

4 ¿Acaso no tenemos derecho de hospedarnos con ustedes y compartir sus comidas?

5 ¿No tenemos derecho a llevar con nosotros a una esposa cristiana como lo hacen los demás apóstoles y los hermanos del Señor y como lo hace Pedro?