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1 Corinthians 9:3
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This is my defense to those who would examine me.
My defence to them that examine mee, is this,
My defense to those who examine me is this:
My defense to those who examine me is this.
My defence to those who examine me is this:
Some people want to judge me. So this is the answer I give them:
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 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:
3 My apology to them who judge me [fn] is this:
3 And [fn] apology to my judgers, is this:
Mine answere to them that doe examine me, is this:
Myne aunswere to them that aske me, is this,
My defence to them that examine me is this.
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
My defense to those who examine me is this:
My defense to those examining me is this:
This is the answer I give people who want to judge me:
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.
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.
So my answer to those who criticize me is this,
When people criticize me, this is how I defend myself:
My answer 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.
That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
My defense to hem that axen me, that is.
This is my defense to those who would examine me.
My defense to those that examine me is this.
My defence to those who examine me in this;
My answer to those who are judging me is this.
My defense to those who examine me is 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?
When people ask questions about me, I say this:
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:
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 that eateth despise him that eateth not. And let not him whiche eateth not iudge him that eateth. For God hath receaved him.
For I knowe and am full certified in the Lorde Iesus that ther is nothinge comen of it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth it to be comen: to him is it comen.
For the kyngdome of God is not meate and drinke: but rightewesnes peace and ioye in the holy goost.
Destroye not ye worke of god for a lytell meates sake. All thinges are pure: but it is evyll for that man which eateth with hurte of his conscience.
All thynges are lawfull to me but all thinges edifye not.
Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke or what soever ye do do all to the prayse of God.
Let no ma therfore trouble youre conscieces aboute meate and drynke or for a pece of an holydaye as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes
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.
