1 Corinthians 9:5
Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter do?
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4Have I no right to claim food and drink?
6Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?
Cross References
Matthew 8:14When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he found his wife’s mother prostrated with fever.
Matthew 13:55"Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers Jamesand Joseph and Simon and Judas?
Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of Jamesand Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?"
Luke 8:20But some one told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you."
John 2:12Afterward he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and remained there a few 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 →