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1 Corinthians 9:6

Barnabas
Work

4 Have we no right to food and to drink?

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

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?

8 Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

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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
Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
KJV
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
WEB
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
ASV
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
DARBY
Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
BLB
Or do only I and Barnabas have no authority to work?
ÅB
Eller er det bare jeg og Barnabas som ikke har rett til å slippe å arbeide?
OTB
Eller er det bare Barnabas og jeg som ikke har rett til å la være å arbeide?
B1930
Eller er det bare jeg og Barnabas som ikke har rett til å slippe å arbeide?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9

    For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,

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  • Acts 13:1–2

    Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.

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  • Acts 18:3

    and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

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  • Acts 4:36

    Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),

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  • 1 Thessalonians 2:9

    Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

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  • Acts 14:12

    Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

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  • Acts 11:22

    When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

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  • Acts 15:36–37

    Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

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