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1 Corinthians 9:3-7
New International Version
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
New International Version
3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 4 Don’t we have the right to food and drink?(A) 5 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) 6 Or is it only I and Barnabas(E) who lack the right to not work for a living?
7 Who serves as a soldier(F) at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard(G) and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?(A) 5 Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife[a] like the other apostles,(B) the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?(C) 6 Or do Barnabas(D) and I alone have no right to refrain from working? 7 Who ever goes to war at his own expense?(E) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit a sister as a wife
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
King James Version
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
King James Version
3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 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?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
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