Devine Scripture

1 Corinthians 9:5

1 Corinthians chapter 9 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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?

Context

v.4Have we no right to eat and to drink?

v.5This passage

v.6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Mark 6:3

    Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:39

    A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

  • John 2:12

    After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, andhisbrethren, and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.

  • Song of Solomon 4:12

    A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

  • Song of Solomon 5:1

    I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

  • Romans 16:1

    I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreæ: