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1 Corinthians 9:5

JesusSimon
Marriage

3 This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

4 Have we no right to food and to drink?

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

6 Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
KJV
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?
WEB
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?
ASV
Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
DARBY
have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
BLB
Have we no authority to take along a sister—a wife—as also the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
ÅB
Har vi ikke rett til å føre en søster med oss som hustru, slik som de andre apostler og Herrens brødre og Kefas?
OTB
Har vi ikke rett til å ta med en troende hustru, slik som de andre apostlene, Herrens brødre og Kefas?
B1930
Har vi ikke rett til å føre en søster med oss som hustru, likesom de andre apostler og Herrens brødre og Kefas?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • John 1:42

    Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).

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  • Matthew 8:14

    When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:39

    A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:7

    I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

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  • Galatians 1:19

    But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.

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  • Acts 1:14

    With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

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  • Hebrews 13:4

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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  • 1 Timothy 3:2

    An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

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