1 Corinthians 9:4 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

KJV

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ASV

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

WEB

Have we no right to food and to drink?

YLT

have we not authority to eat and to drink?

DBT

Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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14 verses on the floor

1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Luke 10:7
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:8–9
Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
Matthew 10:10
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

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. " My answer to those that do examine me (that is, enquire into my authority, or the reasons of my conduct, if I am an apostle) is this: Have we not power to eat and drink (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

For that a wife is here to be understood by the sister-woman ~ adelphen gynaika, is plain from this, that it would have been utterly unfit for the apostles to have carried about women with them unless they were wives. The word implies that they had power over them, and could require their attendance on them, which none could have over any but wives or servants.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Greek interrogative expresses, "You surely won't say (will you?) that we have not the power or right," &c. eat and drink--without laboring with our hands (1Co 9:11, 13, 14). Paul's not exercising this right was made a plea by his opponents for insinuating that he was himself conscious he was no true apostle (2Co 12:13-16).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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1CO 9:4GAL 6:6 1TI 5:17-18
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1CO 9:4GAL 6:6 ROM 15:27
1CO 9:4GAL 6:6 DEU 12:19
1CO 9:4GAL 6:6 1CO 9:9-14
1CO 9:4GAL 6:6 MAT 10:10
1CO 9:41TH 2:6 GAL 1:10
1CO 9:41TH 2:6 JHN 5:44
1CO 9:4LUK 10:7 MAT 10:10-11

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