1 Corinthians 9:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

My defence to them that examine mee, is this,

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Ye men, brethren and Fathers, heare my defence nowe towards you.
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 To whome I answered, that it is not the maner of the Romanes for fauour to deliuer any man to the death, before that hee which is accused, haue the accusers before him, and haue place to defend himselfe, concerning the crime.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If any man thinke him selfe to be a Prophet, or spirituall, let him acknowledge, that the things, that I write vnto you, are the commandements of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 10:7-8 : 7 Looke yee on things after the appearance? If any man trust in himselfe that hee is Christes, let him consider this againe of himself, that as he is Christes, euen so are we Christes. 8 For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.
  • 2 Cor 12:16-19 : 16 But bee it that I charged you not: yet for as much as I was craftie, I tooke you with guile. 17 Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent vnto you? 18 I haue desired Titus, and with him I haue sent a brother: did Titus pill you of any thing? walked we not in the selfe same spirit? walked we not in the same steppes? 19 Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 Seeing that ye seeke experience of Christ, that speaketh in mee, which towarde you is not weake, but is mightie in you.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Proue your selues whether ye are in the faith: examine your selues: knowe yee not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 As it becommeth me so to iudge of you all, because I haue you in remembrance that both in my bands, and in my defence, & confirmation of the Gospell you all were partakers of my grace.
  • Phil 1:17 : 17 But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first answering no man assisted me, but all forsooke me: I pray God, that it may not be laide to their charge.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1 Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord?

    2 If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4 Haue we not power to eat & to drinke?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3 As touching me, I passe very litle to be iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: no, I iudge not mine owne selfe.

    4 For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

  • Acts 22:1
    73%

    1 Ye men, brethren and Fathers, heare my defence nowe towards you.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

  • Acts 24:19-21
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    19 Who ought to haue bene present before thee, and accuse me, if they had ought against me.

    20 Or let these themselues say, if they haue found any vniust thing in mee, while I stoode in the Council,

    21 Except it be for this one voyce, that I cried standing among them, Of the resurrection of the dead am I accused of you this day.

  • Rom 9:1
    71%

    1 I say the trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience bearing mee witnes in the holy Ghost,

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17 For if I do it willingly, I haue a reward, but if I do it against my will, notwithstanding the dispensation is committed vnto me.

    18 What is my reward then? verely that when I preach the Gospel, I make the Gospel of Christ free, that I abuse not mine authoritie in ye Gospel.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8 Say I these thinges according to man? saith not the Lawe the same also?

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9 For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

  • Acts 25:16
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    16 To whome I answered, that it is not the maner of the Romanes for fauour to deliuer any man to the death, before that hee which is accused, haue the accusers before him, and haue place to defend himselfe, concerning the crime.

  • Acts 25:8
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    8 Forasmuch as he answered, that he had neither offended any thing against the lawe of the Iewes, neither against ye temple, nor against Cæsar.

  • 1 Cor 9:6
    70%

    6 Or I only and Barnabas, haue not we power not to worke?

  • Acts 26:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2 I thinke my selfe happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answere this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the Iewes.

    3 Chiefly, because thou hast knowledge of all customes, and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee, to heare me patiently.

    4 As touching my life from my childhood, and what it was from the beginning among mine owne nation at Hierusalem, know all the Iewes,

  • 2 Cor 10:9
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    9 This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    70%

    5 Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.

  • Acts 25:11
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    11 For if I haue done wrong, or committed any thing worthie of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man, to pleasure them, can deliuer me to them: I appeale vnto Cæsar.

  • Acts 24:13
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    13 Neither can they proue the things, whereof they now accuse me.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29 Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

    30 If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17 But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.

  • Acts 24:10
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    10 Then Paul, after that the gouernour had beckened vnto him that hee shoulde speake, answered, I do the more gladly answere for my selfe, for as much as I knowe that thou hast bene of many yeres a iudge vnto this nation,

  • Phil 1:30
    69%

    30 Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare to be in me.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9 Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22 They are Hebrues, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seede of Abraham, so am I:

  • Gal 1:10
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    10 For nowe preach I mans doctrine, or Gods? or go I about to please men? for if I should yet please men, I were not the seruant of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
    69%

    3 Seeing that ye seeke experience of Christ, that speaketh in mee, which towarde you is not weake, but is mightie in you.

  • 1 Pet 3:15
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    15 But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekenesse and reuerence,

  • Job 9:15
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    15 For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplicatio to my Iudge.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    69%

    10 But thou hast fully knowen my doctrine, maner of liuing, purpose, faith, long suffering, loue, patience,

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is it, wherein yee were inferiours vnto other Churches, except that I haue not bene slouthfull to your hinderance? forgiue me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16 I say againe, Let no man thinke that I am foolish, or els take mee euen as a foole, that I also may boast my selfe a litle.

  • 2 Tim 4:16
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    16 At my first answering no man assisted me, but all forsooke me: I pray God, that it may not be laide to their charge.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23 And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1 For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
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    11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • John 18:21
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    21 Why askest thou mee? aske them which heard mee what I sayde vnto them: beholde, they knowe what I sayd.

  • Acts 28:18-19
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    18 Who when they had examined me, would haue let me goe, because there was no cause of death in me.

    19 But when the Iewes spake contrary, I was constrained to appeale vnto Cesar, not because I had ought to accuse my nation of.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15 I speake as vnto them which haue vnderstanding: iugde ye what I say.

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    10 The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.