Bible verse
Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 9.
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
2 Even if I am not 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 scrutinize me:
4 Have we no right to food and to drink?
5 Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6 Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles 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 fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
8 Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
KJV
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
ASV
Have 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?
ERV
Have 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?
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