Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 9:5 in context
1 Corinthians 9:2–8
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If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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My defense to those who examine me is this:
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Have we no right to eat and to drink?
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Selected verse
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
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Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
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What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
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Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
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