And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
1 Corinthians 9:3 - King James Version - American Edition Mine answer to them that do examine me is this: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This is my [real ground of] defense (my vindication of myself) to those who would put me on trial and cross-examine me. American Standard Version (1901) My defence to them that examine me is this. Common English Bible This is my defense against those who criticize me. Catholic Public Domain Version My defense with those who question me is this: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My defence with them that do examine me is this. |
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you.
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.
even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.