1 Corinthians 9:3
My defense to those who examine me is this:
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1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
2 Corinthians 13:3
seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me who is not weak, but is powerful in you.
1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Galatians 2:8
for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
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1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
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Acts 22:1
“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
Acts 25:16
I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
Philippians 1:7
It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
Philippians 1:17
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
Acts 26:2
“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
Acts 26:24
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
Romans 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
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Luke 23:14
and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
Acts 4:9
if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
Acts 12:19
When Herod had sought for him and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Acts 24:8
By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”
1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
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