1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
In Context
3That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
Cross References
Luke 10:7And in that same house stay, eating and drinking at their table; for the labourer deserves his wages. Do not move from one house to another.
Galatians 6:6But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.
1 Timothy 5:17Let the Elders who perform their duties wisely and well be held worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in preaching and teaching.
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 →