1 Corinthians 9:3-7
New American Standard Bible
3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 [a](A)Do we not have a right to eat and drink? 5 [b](B)Do we not have a right to take along a [c]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the (C)brothers of the Lord, and [d](D)Cephas? 6 Or do only [e](E)Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from [f]working? 7 Who at any time serves (F)as a soldier at his own expense? Who (G)plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not [g]consume some of the milk of the flock?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it?
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as a wife
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s Aramaic name
- 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas
- 1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves
- 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from
1 Corinthians 9:3-7
New King James Version
3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 (A)Do we have no [a]right to eat and drink? 5 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? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I (D)who have no right to refrain from working? 7 Who ever (E)goes to war at his own expense? Who (F)plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who (G)tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:4 authority
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit. a sister, a wife
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