Bible verse
This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
1 Corinthians 9:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 9.
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
2 Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
4 Have we no right to food and to drink?
5 Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6 Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
KJV
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
ASV
My defence to them that examine me is this.
ERV
My defence to them that examine me is this.
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