1 Corinthians 9:5
Or haue we not power to lead about a wife being a sister, as well as the rest of the Apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
4Haue we not power to eat and to drinke?
6Or I only and Barnabas, haue not we power not to worke?
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12My sister my spouse is as a garden inclosed, as a spring shut vp, and a fountaine sealed vp.
Matthew 8:14And when Iesus came to Peters house, he sawe his wiues mother layed downe, and sicke of a feuer.
Matthew 13:55Is not this the carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie, and his brethren Iames and Ioses, and Simon and Iudas?
Mark 6:3Is not this that carpenter Maries sonne, the brother of Iames and Ioses, and of Iuda and Simon? and are not his sisters here with vs? And they were offended in him.
Luke 8:20And it was tolde him by certaine which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.
John 2:12After that, he went downe into Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: but they continued not many daies there.
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 →