1 Corinthians 9:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My defence to them that examine me is this.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Acts 22:1 : 1 {G435} Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, {G1519} {G684} before that the {G3588} accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
2 Cor 10:7-8 : 7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we. 8 For though {G5037} I should glory {G2532} somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave {G2254} for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
2 Cor 12:16-19 : 16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you? 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did {G5100} Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps? 19 {G3825} Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
2 Cor 13:3 : 3 seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:
2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be {G5100} reprobate.
2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
Phil 1:7 : 7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
Phil 1:17 : 17 but the other {G3303} proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Cor 9:1-2
2 verses
79%
1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus {G5547} our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
1 Cor 9:4
74%
4Have we {G3361} no right to eat and to drink?
1 Cor 4:3-4
2 verses
73%
3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby {G1722} justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Acts 22:1
73%
1{G435} Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
1 Cor 9:15
72%
15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
Acts 24:19-21
3 verses
72%
19who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.
20Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,
21except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day.
Rom 9:1
71%
1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
1 Cor 9:17-18
2 verses
71%
17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel {G5547} without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
1 Cor 9:8
71%
8Do I speak these things {G3361} after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
1 Cor 15:9
70%
9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Acts 25:16
70%
16To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, {G1519} {G684} before that the {G3588} accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
Acts 25:8
70%
8while Paul said in his defense, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.
1 Cor 9:6
70%
6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
Acts 26:2-4
3 verses
70%
2I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:
3especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
2 Cor 10:9
70%
9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
2 Cor 11:5
70%
5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Acts 25:11
70%
11{G1063} If then {G3303} I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is [true] whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
Acts 24:13
70%
13Neither can they prove {G3165} to thee the things whereof they now accuse me.
2 Cor 11:29-30
2 verses
70%
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
Phil 1:17
70%
17but the other {G3303} proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
Acts 24:10
69%
10And when the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, Paul answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make my defense:
Phil 1:30
69%
30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
2 Thess 3:9
69%
9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
2 Cor 11:22
69%
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Gal 1:10
69%
10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? {G1063} if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
2 Cor 13:3
69%
3seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:
1 Pet 3:15
69%
15but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: {G1161} [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
Job 9:15
69%
15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
2 Tim 3:10
69%
10But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
2 Cor 11:12
69%
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein {G1722} they glory, they may be found even as we.
2 Cor 12:13
69%
13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
2 Cor 11:16
69%
16I say again, let no man think me {G1511} foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that {G2504} I also may glory a little.
2 Tim 4:16
69%
16At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.
1 Cor 9:23
69%
23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
2 Cor 9:1
69%
1For as touching {G3303} the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2 Tim 1:11
69%
11whereunto {G1519} I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.
John 18:21
69%
21Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard [me], what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which I said.
Acts 28:18-19
2 verses
69%
18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me at liberty, because there was no cause of death in me.
19But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had aught whereof to accuse my nation.
1 Cor 10:15
69%
15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
2 Cor 11:10
69%
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
2 Cor 12:11
68%
11I am become foolish: {G2744} ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though {G2532} I am nothing.