1 Coríntios 9
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1 Coríntios 9:9
God's care was not only for the oxen but moreso for the apostles, for whose sake he uttered these words. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.4.2
1 Coríntios 9:15
"It is better that I die" than that they ravish and plunder some of my brothers and by sly verbal deception lead captive the "little children" and sucklings in Christ. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 4.6
1 Coríntios 9:17
What then shall I do, to whom the dispensation of the Word is committed? Although I am an "unprofitable servant," I have, nevertheless, received from the Lord the commission "to distribute the measure of wheat to the master's servants.". — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 10
1 Coríntios 9:19
The fact that he is completely free makes Paul the exemplary apostle. For it is possible to be free of immorality but a slave to anger, to be free of greed but a slave to boasting, to be free of one sin but a slave to another. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.43.1-5
1 Coríntios 9:23
Only someone as mature in faith as the apostle Paul could say this. A sinner could never talk in this way. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.43.49-50