1 Corinthians 9:3-7
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3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 4 Do we not have the right to our food and drink?(A) 5 Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife,[a] as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?(B) 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?(C) 7 Who at any time pays the expenses for doing military service? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not get any of its milk?(D)
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- 9.5 Gk a sister as wife
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
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