1 Corinthians 9:3-7
English Standard Version
3 This 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? 6 Or 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
New Living Translation
3 This is my answer to those who question my authority.[a] 4 Don’t we have the right to live in your homes and share your meals? 5 Don’t we have the right to bring a believing wife[b] with us as the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers do, and as Peter[c] does? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves?
7 What soldier has to pay his own expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to drink some of the milk?
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