"Mine answer to them that do examine me is this," — 1 Corinthians 9:3

1 Corinthians 9:3 · KJV

“Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,”

— 1 Corinthians 9:3

Verse 2

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.

Verse 4

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

1 Corinthians 9 — Context

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in 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.

Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and {as} the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? {wife: or, woman}

Cross References

Philippians 1:17

But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

Acts 22:1

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence {which I make} now unto you.

2 Corinthians 13:10

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.

2 Timothy 4:16

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.

2 Corinthians 13:3

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

2 Corinthians 12:16-19

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

1 Corinthians 14:37

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.

Acts 25:16

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 licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.