1 Corinthians 9:5
Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4Do we not have the right to eat and to drink?
6Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from working?
Cross References
Matthew 8:14And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
Matthew 13:55Is this not the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?
Mark 6:3Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, of Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended by him.
Luke 8:20And he was told, Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.
John 2:12After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples: and they stayed 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 →