1 Corinthians 9:3-7

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³This is my defense to those who would examine me. ⁴^(A)Do we not have the right to eat and drink? ⁵^(B)Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,^[a] as do the other apostles and ^(C)the brothers of the Lord and ^(D)Cephas? ⁶Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? ⁷^(E)Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? ^(F)Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

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1 Corinthians 9:5 Greek a sister as wife

1 Corinthians 9:3-7

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³This is my defense to those who would examine me: ⁴We have the right to earn our food,^[a] don’t we? ⁵We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas,^[b] don’t we? ⁶Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living? ⁷Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?

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1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit. to eat and drink
1 Corinthians 9:5 I.e. Peter

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