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
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3 This is my defense to those who would examine me: 4 We have the right to earn our food,[a] don’t we? 5 We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas,[b] don’t we? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living? 7 Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?
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- 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit. to eat and drink
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 I.e. Peter
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