1 Corinthians 9:3-7
Legacy Standard Bible
3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 (A)Do we not have authority to eat and drink? 5 (B)Do we not have authority to take along a [a]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the (C)brothers of the Lord and (D)Cephas? 6 Or do only [b](E)Barnabas and I not have authority to refrain from working? 7 Who at any time serves (F)as a soldier at his own expense? Who (G)plants a vineyard and does not [c]consume the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not [d]consume the milk of the flock?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as wife
- 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas
- 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of
- 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
Revised Standard Version
3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 4 Do we not have the right to our food and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife,[a] as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Greek a sister as wife
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