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?

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

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Don’t we have the right to food and drink?(A) Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife(B) along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers(C) and Cephas[a]?(D) Or is it only I and Barnabas(E) who lack the right to not work for a living?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter

(A)Do we have no [a]right to eat and drink? Do we have no right to take along [b]a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, (B)the brothers of the Lord, and (C)Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I (D)who have no right to refrain from working?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:4 authority
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit. a sister, a wife

Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

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Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.(A)

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Be Generous and Do Good

(A)Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

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