1 Corinthians 9:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is cused have the cusers fe to fe, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 10:7-8 : 7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
  • 2 Cor 12:16-19 : 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 Even as it is meet for me to think this 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 of my grace.
  • Phil 1:17 : 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

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    1Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

    2If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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    4Have we not power to eat and to drink?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    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 by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

  • Acts 22:1
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    1Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

  • Acts 24:19-21
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    19Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

    20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while 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 by you this day.

  • Rom 9:1
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    1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

    18What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

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    8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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    16To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is cused have the cusers fe to fe, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

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    8While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.

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    6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

  • Acts 26:2-4
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    2I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am cused of the Jews:

    3Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

    4My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

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    9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

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    5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

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    11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these cuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

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    13Neither can they prove the things whereof they now cuse me.

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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

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    17But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

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    30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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    22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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    3Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

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    13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

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    16At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

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    23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

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    18Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

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    15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

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    10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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    11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.