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1 Corinthians 9:6

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Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

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1 Corinthians 9:6 in other translations

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

1 Corinthians 9:6 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 9:6 in context

  1. 4Have we no right to eat and to drink?
  2. 5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
  3. 6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
  4. 7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
  5. 8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?