1 Corinthians 9:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Have we not power to eat and to drink?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Have we not the right to our food and drink [at the expense of the churches]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Have we no right to eat and to drink?

Common English Bible

⁴ Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Do we not have the authority to eat and to drink?

1 Corinthians 9:4 Cross References

Leviticus 22:7

‘And when the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward eat the set-apart offerings, because it is his food.

Matthew 10:10

or a bag for the journey, or two undergarments, or sandals, or staffs, for the worker is worthy of his food.

Luke 10:7

“And stay in the same house, eating and drinking whatever with them, for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.

Acts 20:33

“I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or garments.

1 Corinthians 9:3

My defence to those who examine me is this:

Galatians 6:6

And let him who is instructed in the Word share in all that is good, with him who is instructing.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor were we looking for praise from men, not from you nor from others, though we could have been a burden to you, as emissaries of Messiah.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, for labouring night and day, in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the Good News of Elohim.