[a]Have we not power to [b]eat and to drink?

Or have we not power to lead about a wife being a [c]sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power [d]not to work?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Now touching the matter itself, he saith, Seeing that I am free, and truly an Apostle, why may not I (I say not, eat of all things offered to idols) but be maintained by my labors, yea and keep my wife also, as the residue of the apostles lawfully do, as by name, John and James, the Lord’s cousins, and Peter himself?
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Upon the expense of the Church?
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:5 One that is a Christian and a true believer?
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Not to live by the work of our hands?

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