[a](A)Do we not have a right to take along a [b]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the (B)brothers of the Lord and (C)Cephas? Or do only [c](D)Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? Who at any time serves (E)as a soldier at his own expense? Who (F)plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not [d]use the milk of the flock?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as wife
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of

Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife(A) along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers(B) and Cephas[a]?(C) Or is it only I and Barnabas(D) who lack the right to not work for a living?

Who serves as a soldier(E) at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard(F) and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter