1 Corinthians 9:4

1 Corinthians 9:4

2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are ^athe seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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?

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Have we no right? (Mh ouk exomen ecousian). Literary plural here though singular in I Corinthians 9:1-3. The mh in this double negative expects the answer "No" while ouk goes with the verb exomen. "Do we fail to have the right?" Cf. Romans 10:18 f. (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1173).

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