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We do not fail to have the right to take along[a] a sister who is a wife, do we?— as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas. Or I alone and Barnabas— do not we have the right not to be working[b]?

Workers Always Partake of The Fruit of Their Labors

Who ever serves-as-a-soldier with his own rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, to take a believing wife with us in our ministry to you, at your expense.
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:6 That is, not to be working outside of our ministry to you in order to support ourselves.

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