1 Corinthians 9:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

My answer to those who examine me is this,

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  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Men, brothers, and fathers, listen to my defense which I now present to you.
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before he who is accused meets his accusers face to face, and has an opportunity to present his defense concerning the charges against him.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 10:7-8 : 7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, 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 has 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 those whom I sent to you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps? 19 Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are 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 has given me for edification, and not for destruction.
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 Just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 1:17 : 17 But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. I pray that it may not be held against them.

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  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

    2If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you: for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4Do we not have the right to eat and drink?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

    4For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

  • Acts 22:1
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    1Men, brothers, and fathers, listen to my defense which I now present to you.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Acts 24:19-21
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    19Who ought to have been present before you, to charge me, if they had anything against me.

    20Or else let those who are here say, if they found any wrongdoing in me, while I stood before the council,

    21Except it be for this one statement, that I cried standing among them, Regarding the resurrection of the dead I am questioned by you this day.

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

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

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    8Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

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

  • Acts 25:16
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    16To whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before he who is accused meets his accusers face to face, and has an opportunity to present his defense concerning the charges against him.

  • Acts 25:8
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    8While he answered for himself, I have not offended against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar.

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    6Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from working?

  • Acts 26:2-4
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    2I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before you concerning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews:

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

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

  • 2 Cor 10:9
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    9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • Acts 25:11
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    11For if I am an offender, or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die: but if there is nothing of these charges against me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.

  • Acts 24:13
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    13Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

    30If I must boast, I will boast in the things concerning my weakness.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

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    10Then Paul, after the governor had motioned to him to speak, answered, Since I know that you have been for many years a judge to this nation, I do cheerfully respond for myself:

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

  • 2 Thess 3:9
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    9Not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

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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 still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.

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    15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

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    15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would plead with my Judge.

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    10But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

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    12But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16I say again, let no one think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast a little.

  • 2 Tim 4:16
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    16At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. I pray that it may not be held against them.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

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    1Concerning the service to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you:

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    11To which I am appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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    21Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard me what I have said to them. Indeed, they know what I said.

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    18When they had examined me, they wanted to release me, because there was no cause for putting me to death.

    19But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.

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    15I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

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

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    11I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.