the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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1 Corinthians 9:3
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This is my answer to my critics and those who judge me.
My defense to those who examine me is this:
My defense to those who examine me is this:
My answer to those who are judging me is this.
My defence to those who examine me is this:
My defense to those who examine me is this:
My defense to those who examine me is this.
My answer to them who examine me is this.
That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
Mine answere to them that doe examine me, is this:
My defense to those examining 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 defense to those who would put me on trial and interrogate me [concerning my authority as an apostle]:
My defence to them that examine me is this.
This is my defense to those who would examine me.
Myne answer to them that axe me is this.
My defense to those that examine me is this.
My answer to them that examine me is this,
My defence to those who examine me in this;
This is the answer I give people who want to judge me:
This is my defense to those who examine me.
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.
This is my defense to those who would examine me.
My defence to them that examine mee, is this,
So my answer to those who criticize 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:
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:
My defence to them that examine me is 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.
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
My defense to those who examine me is this:
Myne aunswere to them that aske me, is this,
Some people want to judge me. So this is the answer I give them:
My defense to those who examine me is this:
When people criticize me, this is how I defend myself:
My defense to hem that axen me, that is.
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
And God blessed Noe and his sonnes, and sayde vnto them: increace & multiplye, and fyll the earth.
All that moueth and hath life, be youre meate. Euen as the grene herbe, so haue I geue you all.
For the bloude of you wherin youre soule is, wyll I requyre of the hande of all beastes: and the soule of ma wyll I requyre of mans hande, yee euery mans soule of anothers hande.
And God sayde: This is the token of my couenaunt which I haue made betwene me and you, and all lyuynge creatures amonge you for euermore:
so that wha I brynge cloudes vpon the earth, the bowe shal appeare in the cloudes.
And then wyll I thynke vpon my couenaunt betwixte me and you and all lyuynge creatures in all maner of flesh: so that from hence forth there shall nomore come eny floude of water to destroye all flesh.
And dranke of the wyne, and was dronken, and laye vncouered in his tente.
Now when Ha the father of Canaan sawe his fathers preuities, he tolde his two brethren without.
he sayde: Cursed be Canaan, and a seruaunt of seruauntes be he vnto his brethren.
He sayde morouer: Praysed be the LORDE God of Sem, and Canaan be his seruaunt.
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.
