1 Corinthians 9:5

New King James Version

Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Cross References

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden enclosed Is my sister, my spouse, A spring shut up, A fountain sealed.

Matthew 13:55

Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

Matthew 8:14

Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.

Mark 1:30

But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.

Mark 6:3

Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him.

Luke 6:15

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

Luke 8:20

And it was told Him by some, who said, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.”

John 1:42

And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone).

John 2:12

After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.

Acts 1:14

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

Romans 16:1

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

1 Corinthians 1:12

Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:7

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

1 Corinthians 7:8

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;

Galatians 1:19

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

1 Timothy 3:2

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 5:2

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Titus 1:6

if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.