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This is the answer I give people who want to ·judge me [examine me; question my credentials]: Do we not have the right to eat and drink [C receive hospitality and support for their missionary work]? Do we not have the right to ·bring a believing wife with us when we travel [or be married to a believer; L take along a wife who is a sister] as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers [Matt. 13:55; Acts 1:14] and ·Peter [L Cephas; C Peter’s name in Aramaic; see 1:12]?

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This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?(A) Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife(B) along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers(C) and Cephas[a]?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter