1 Corinthians 9:5-7

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⁵Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife,^[a]^[b] as the other apostles and the brethren^[c] of the Lord and Cephas? ⁶Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? ⁷Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

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1 Corinthians 9:5 Greek woman, sister
9.5 wife: Greek, a “woman,” a “sister.” This could mean either a woman who is a Christian or a wife who is a Christian. There were pious women who ministered to the apostles (Lk 8.3). As many of the apostles must have been married, they may have been ministered to by their wives, though it is possible they had left their wives in answer to the Lord’s command to leave all (Lk 18.28-29).
9.5 brethren: See note on Mt 12.46.

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