1 Corinthians 9:5
Or have we not authority to carry about with us a sister as a wife; just as the other legates, and the brothers of our Lord, and as Cephas?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
4Have we not authority, to eat and to drink?
6Or I only, and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear labor?
Cross References
Matthew 8:14And Jesus came to the house of Simon and saw his wife's mother prostrate, confined by a fever.
Matthew 13:55Is not this man the carpenter's son? 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, and the brother of James and of Joses and of Judas and of Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were stumbled in him.
Luke 8:20And they say to him: Thy mother and thy brothers stand without, and wish to see thee.
John 2:12Afterwards he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples; and they were 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 →