1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do--and the Lord's brothers and Peter?
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
4Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
6Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
Cross References
Matthew 8:14After this Jesus went to the house of Peter, whose mother-in-law he found ill in bed with fever.
Matthew 13:55Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judah?
Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.
Luke 8:20But He was told, "Your mother and brothers are standing on the edge of the crowd, and want to see you."
John 2:12Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay 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 →