1 Corinthians 9:3

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

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 ...

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

Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.