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1 Corinthians 9:3
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My defense to those who examine me is this:
Mine answere to them that doe examine me, is this:
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
This is my defense to those who would examine me.
My defense to those who examine me is this:
This is the answer I give people who want to judge me:
This is my defense to those who would put me on trial and interrogate me [concerning my authority as an apostle]:
My defense to those who examine me is this:
This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
When people question me, I tell them
That is my defense when people put me under examination.
My defence to those who examine me is this:
Some people want to judge me. So this is the answer I give them:
My defence to them that examine mee, is this,
So my answer to those who criticize me is this,
When people criticize me, this is how I defend myself:
My defense to those who examine me is this:
My defense to those examining me is this:
My defence to them that examine me is this.
My answer to those who are judging me is this.
My defense to those who examine me is this.
This is my defense to those who would examine me:
3 My apology to them who judge me [fn] is this:
3 And [fn] apology to my judgers, is this:
Myne aunswere to them that aske me, is this,
My defence to them that examine me is this.
My defense to those who examine me is this.
My answer to them who examine me is this.
My defense to hem that axen me, that is.
My defense to those that examine me is this.
My answer to them that examine me is this,
This is my defense to those who examine me.
My defense to those who examine me is this:
This is my answer to those who question my authority.
When people ask questions about me, I say this:
This is my defense to those who would examine me.
My defence, unto them who are examining me, is this:
My defence with them that do examine me is this.
This is my defense to those who would examine me.
Myne answer to them that axe me is this.
My defence to those who examine me in this;
Myne answere vnto them that axe me, is this:
my answer to those who call me to account, is this:
I'm not shy in standing up to my critics. We who are on missionary assignments for God have a right to decent accommodations, and we have a right to support for us and our families. You don't seem to have raised questions with the other apostles and our Master's brothers and Peter in these matters. So, why me? Is it just Barnabas and I who have to go it alone and pay our own way? Are soldiers self-employed? Are gardeners forbidden to eat vegetables from their own gardens? Don't milkmaids get to drink their fill from the pail?
This is my answer to my critics and those who judge me.
My defense to those who examine me is this:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
answer: Acts 22:1, Acts 25:16, Philippians 1:7, Philippians 1:17, 2 Timothy 4:16,*Gr.
them: 1 Corinthians 14:37, 2 Corinthians 10:7, 2 Corinthians 10:8, 2 Corinthians 12:16-19, 2 Corinthians 13:3, 2 Corinthians 13:5, 2 Corinthians 13:10
Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 9:1 - I not an
Cross-References
Let not him who eats certain food look down upon him who abstains from it, nor him who abstains from it find fault with him who eats it; for God has received both of them.
As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.
For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit;
Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.
Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.
Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.
Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this. These words are referred by some to the following, as if the apostle's answer lay in putting the questions he does in the next verses; but they rather seem to belong to the preceding, and the meaning to be this, that when any persons called in question his apostleship, and examined him upon that head, what he thought fit to say in answer to them, and in defence of himself, was by referring them to the famous church at Corinth, who were as particular persons, and as a church, his work in the Lord, and everyone of them as so many seals of his apostleship; he being the first preacher of the Gospel to them, the founder of them as a church, and the instrument of their conversion.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Mine answer - Greek Ἡ ἐμὴ ἀπολογία Hē emē apologia. My “apology;” my defense. The same word occurs in Acts 22:1; Acts 25:16; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Philippians 1:7, Philippians 1:17; 2 Timothy 4:16; 1 Peter 3:15; see the note at Acts 22:1. Here it means his answer, or defense against those who sat in judgment on his claims to be an apostle.
To them that do examine me. - To those who “inquire” of me; or who “censure” and condemn me as not having any claims to the apostolic office. The word used here ἀνακρίνω anakrinō is properly a forensic term, and is usually applied to judges in courts; to those who sit in judgment, and investigate and decide in litigated cases brought before them; Luke 23:14; Acts 4:9; Acts 12:19; Acts 24:8. The apostle here may possibly allude to the arrogance and pride of those who presumed to sit as judges on his qualification for the apostolic office. It is not meant that this answer had been given by Paul before this, but that this was the defense which he had to offer.
Is this - This which follows; the statements which are made in the following verses. In these statements (1 Corinthians 9:4-6, etc.) he seems to have designed to take up their objections to his apostolic claims one by one, and to show that they were of no force.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 9:3. Mine answer to them — Ἡ εμη απολογια τοις εμε ανακρινουσιν· This is my defence against those who examine me. The words are forensic; and the apostle considers himself as brought before a legal tribunal, and questioned so as to be obliged to answer as upon oath. His defence therefore was this, that they were converted to God by his means. This verse belongs to the two preceding verses.
