My defense to those who examine me is this: (A)Do we have no [a]right to eat and drink? 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? Or is it only Barnabas and I (D)who have no right to refrain from working? 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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:4 authority
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit. a sister, a wife

· ho This houtos is eimi my emos defense apologia to those ho who sit in judgment on anakrinō me egō. Do we not ou have echō the right exousia to eat esthiō and kai drink pinō? Do we not ou have echō the right exousia to the company of periagō a believing adelphē wife gynē, as hōs also kai the ho other loipos apostles apostolos, · kai the ho Lord’ s kyrios brothers adelphos, · ho and kai Cephas Kēphas do? Or ē is it only monos I egō and kai Barnabas Barnabas who have echō no ou right exousia to refrain from working ergazomai? Who tis ever pote serves in the army at his own idios expense opsōnion? Who tis plants phyteuō a vineyard ampelōn and kai does esthiō not ou eat esthiō · ho its autos fruit karpos? Or ē who tis tends poimainō a flock poimnē and kai does esthiō not ou drink esthiō of ek · ho its poimnē milk gala? · ho

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