1 Corinthians 9:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Have we not the right also to take along with us a Christian sister as wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas (Peter)?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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?

Common English Bible

⁵ Don’t we have the right to travel with a wife who believes like the rest of the apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Do we not have the authority to travel around with a woman who is a sister, just as do the other Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ 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?

1 Corinthians 9:5 Cross References

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.

Matthew 13:55

Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

Matthew 8:14

And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever;

Mark 1:30

Now Simon's mother-in-law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her.

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 took offense at him.

Luke 6:15

and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,

Luke 8:20

And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.”

John 1:42

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

John 2:12

After this he went down to Caperna-um, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples; and there they stayed for a few days.

Acts 1:14

All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Romans 16:1

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchre-ae,

1 Corinthians 1:12

What I mean is that each one of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”

1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:7

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

1 Corinthians 7:8

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.

Galatians 1:19

But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.

1 Timothy 3:2

Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,

1 Timothy 4:3

who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 5:2

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.

Titus 1:6

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.