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 ?


In Context

2 Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me.

4 Don't we have the right to food and drink?

5 Don'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 ?

6 Or is it only I and Barnabas 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 grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk?

1st 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 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?

The American 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 brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?