1 Corinthians 9:5

5 1Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the 2brothers of the Lord and 3Cephas?

1 Corinthians 9:5 In-Context

3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
5 Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
6 Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?
7 Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?

Cross References 3

  • 1. 1 Corinthians 7:7
  • 2. Matthew 12:46
  • 3. Matthew 8:14; John 1:42

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Lit "It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?"
  • [b]. Lit "sister, as wife"
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