Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
My defence (h emh apologia). Original sense, not idea of apologizing as we say. See on Acts 22:1; Acts 25:16. Refers to what precedes and to what follows as illustration of I Corinthians 8:13.
To them that examine me (toiv eme anakrinousin). See on I Corinthians 2:15; I Corinthians 4:3. The critics in Corinth were "investigating" Paul with sharp eyes to find faults. How often the pastor is under the critic's spy-glass.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 9:3:
Luke 23:14
Acts 22:1
1 Corinthians 9:4
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