1 Corinthians 9:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

To lead

A sister

1 Timothy 5:2

The brethren

Galatians 1:19

Bible References

To lead

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

A sister

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones!

But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

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

The brethren

But while he was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?

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 were offended in him.

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

After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.

These gave themselves all with one accord to continual prayer, with several women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

but I saw none other of the apostles, but James the brother of the Lord.