1 Corinthians 9:5

1 Corinthians 9:5

3 My defense to those who examine me is this:

4 ^aDo we have no¹ right to eat and drink?

5 Do we have no right to take along¹ a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, ^athe brothers of the Lord, and ^bCephas?

6 Or is it only Barnabas and I ^awho have no right to refrain from working?

7 Who ever ^agoes to war at his own expense? Who ^bplants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who ^ctends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

8 Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also?

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Have we no right? (Mh ouk exomen ecousian). Same idiom.

To lead about a wife that is a believer? (adelfhn gunaika periagein). Old verb periagw, intransitive in Acts 13:11. Two substantives in apposition, a sister a wife, a common Greek idiom. This is a plea for the support of the preacher's wife and children. Plainly Paul has no wife at this time.

And Cephas (kai Khfav). Why is he singled out by name? Perhaps because of his prominence and because of the use of his name in the divisions in Corinth (I Corinthians 1:12). It was well known that Peter was married (Matthew 8:14). Paul mentions James by name in Galatians 1:19 as one of the Lord's brothers. All the other apostles were either married or had the right to be.

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1 Corinthians 9:5

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