1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4Have we not the right to eat and drink?
6Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?
Cross References
Matthew 8:14And when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying, and ill of a fever.
Matthew 13:55Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judas?
Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they found in him cause for offense.
Luke 8:20And it was told him by some that said: Thy mother and thy brothers stand without, desiring to see thee.
John 2:12After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples. And they continued there not many days.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:4-15
Rights of a Christian Minister. ( a. d. 57.) 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these… Read the whole commentary →