1 Corinthians 9:5
Good News Translation
Don't I have the right to follow the example of the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter, by taking a Christian wife with me on my trips?

New Revised Standard Version
Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Contemporary English Version
We each have the right to marry one of the Lord's followers and to take her along with us, just as the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do.

New American Bible
Do we not have the right to take along a Christian wife, as do the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

to lead.

1 Timothy 3:2 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Titus 1:6 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

a sister.

1 Corinthians 7:15,39 But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or sister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in peace. . . .

Songs 4:9,10,12 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck. . . .

Songs 5:1,2 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved. . . .

Romans 16:1 And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of the church, that is in Cenchrae:

1 Timothy 5:2 Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.

wife.

Matthew 12:46-50 As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. . . .

Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:

Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him.

Luke 6:15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,

John 2:12 After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days.

Acts 1:14 All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

Galatians 1:19 But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord.

Cephas.

1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

Matthew 8:14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick of a fever;

Mark 1:30 And Simon's wife's mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith they tell him of her.

John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona. Thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.

Context
The Rights of an Apostle
4Have not we power to eat and to drink? 5Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? 6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?…
Cross References
Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick of a fever;

Matthew 12:46
As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

John 1:42
And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona. Thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter.

1 Corinthians 1:12
Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:7
For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.

1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

1 Corinthians 9:4
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