[a](A)Do we not have a right to take along a [b]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the (B)brothers of the Lord, and [c](C)Cephas? Or do only [d](D)Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from [e]working? Who at any time serves (E)as a soldier at his own expense? Who (F)plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not [f]consume some of the milk of the flock?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as a wife
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s Aramaic name
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas
  5. 1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves
  6. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from

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