5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?


In Context

2 If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

3 My 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 brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

7 Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

1 Corinthians 9:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:5Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas ?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:5Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:5Have 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:5have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:5Have 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:5Have 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:5have we not authority a sister — a wife — to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?