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1 Corinthians 9:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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? "

1 Corinthians 9:5

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3 My defense to those who examine me is this:

4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

5 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?

6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

7 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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1 Corinthians 9:1

"Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?"

1 Corinthians 9:2

"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."

1 Corinthians 9:3

"My defense to those who examine me is this:"

1 Corinthians 9:4

"Have we no right to eat and to drink?"

1 Corinthians 9:6

"Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?"

1 Corinthians 9:7

"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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