Verse 3

1 Corinthians 9:3

World English Bible

3 My defense to those who examine me is this.

Original Language Text

greek

Ἡ ἐμὴ ἀπολογία τοῖς ἐμὲ ἀνακρίνουσίν ⸂ἐστιν αὕτη⸃.

English Translation

My defense to those who are examining me is this.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Yashua (Jesus) Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my wo... Focus ↗

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

3 My defense to those who examine me is this.

4 Have we no right to eat and to drink? Focus ↗

5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the b... Focus ↗

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

7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or... Focus ↗

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

9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” I... Focus ↗

10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows oug... Focus ↗

11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? Focus ↗

12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right,... Focus ↗

13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and thos... Focus ↗

14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News. Focus ↗

15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my ca... Focus ↗

16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe i... Focus ↗

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 en... Focus ↗

18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ wit... Focus ↗

19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. Focus ↗

20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the... Focus ↗

21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God (Elohim), but under l... Focus ↗

22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that... Focus ↗

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

24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that... Focus ↗

25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a... Focus ↗

26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, Focus ↗

27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others,... Focus ↗

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