1 Corinthians 9:3

World English Bible (2000)

My defense to those who examine me is this.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 22:1 : 1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 10:7-8 : 7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's. 8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
  • 2 Cor 12:16-19 : 16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception. 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you? 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps? 19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, 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 Good News.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

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

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

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

  • Acts 22:1
    73%

    1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    72%

    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • Acts 24:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19 They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

    20 Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

    21 unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

  • Rom 9:1
    71%

    1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
    71%

    8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

  • 1 Cor 15:9
    70%

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

  • Acts 25:16
    70%

    16 To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

  • Acts 25:8
    70%

    8 while he 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%

    6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

  • Acts 26:2-4
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    70%

    2 "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

    3 especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

    4 "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

  • 2 Cor 10:9
    70%

    9 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    70%

    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • Acts 25:11
    70%

    11 For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

  • Acts 24:13
    70%

    13 Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

    30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

  • Phil 1:17
    70%

    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

  • Acts 24:10
    69%

    10 When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

  • Phil 1:30
    69%

    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • 2 Thess 3:9
    69%

    9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 2 Cor 11:22
    69%

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

  • Gal 1:10
    69%

    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
    69%

    3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

  • 1 Pet 3:15
    69%

    15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

  • Job 9:15
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    15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    69%

    10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    69%

    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    69%

    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:16
    69%

    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

  • 2 Tim 4:16
    69%

    16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
    69%

    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
    69%

    1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

  • 2 Tim 1:11
    69%

    11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • John 18:21
    69%

    21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

  • Acts 28:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18 who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

    19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
    69%

    15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
    69%

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

  • 2 Cor 12:11
    68%

    11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.