Now whenever they bring you to the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say.
1 Corinthians 9:3 - English Majority Text Version My defense to those who examine me is this: Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
Now whenever they bring you to the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say.
To them I answered, 'It is not a custom with Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the one being accused may meet his accusers face to face, and may receive an opportunity for defense concerning the charge.'
If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or is spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I am writing to you are the commandments of the Lord.
If I am not an apostle to others, yet indeed I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
Because of this I write these things being absent, in order that when I am present I may not deal sharply with you, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for edification and not for destruction.
since you are seeking proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but strong in you.
Scrutinize yourselves as to whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you are reprobates?
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
just as it is right for me to think this concerning you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.