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1 Corinthians 9:3

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

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

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?

5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
KJV
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
WEB
My defense to those who examine me is this:
ASV
My defence to them that examine me is this.
DARBY
My defence to those who examine me is this:
BLB
This is my defense to those examining me:
ÅB
Dette er mitt forsvar mot dem som dømmer meg.
OTB
Min forsvarstale til dem som gransker meg er denne:
B1930
Dette er mitt forsvar mot dem som dømmer mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Acts 25:16

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

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  • 2 Timothy 4:16

    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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  • Philippians 1:7

    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.

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  • Acts 22:1

    Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.

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  • Philippians 1:17

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

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  • 2 Corinthians 10:7–8

    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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 14:37

    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.

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  • 2 Corinthians 13:10

    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.

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