TSK · 1 Corinthians 9:3

To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.