Parallel Verses
Amplified
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to stop doing manual labor [in order to support our ministry]?
New American Standard Bible
Or do only
King James Version
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Holman Bible
Or do Barnabas
International Standard Version
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living?
A Conservative Version
Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?
American Standard Version
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
An Understandable Version
Or, are Barnabas and I the only ones who must have a [secular] job for our living?
Anderson New Testament
Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?
Bible in Basic English
Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?
Common New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or I and Barnabas, are we only excluded the privilege of not working?
Darby Translation
Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
Godbey New Testament
Have I and Barnabas alone not the right to forbear working?
Goodspeed New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I that have no right to give up working for a living?
John Wesley New Testament
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?
Julia Smith Translation
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power not to work?
King James 2000
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we the right to forbear working?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right {to refrain from working}?
Modern King James verseion
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority whether not to work?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Either only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?
Moffatt New Testament
What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living?
Montgomery New Testament
Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?
NET Bible
Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?
New Heart English Bible
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Noyes New Testament
Or am I alone and Barnabas bound to labor with our own hands?
Sawyer New Testament
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?
The Emphasized Bible
Or have, only I and Barnabas, not a right to forbear working?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
or I alone and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear labour?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread?
Webster
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?
Weymouth New Testament
Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
Williams New Testament
Or is it Barnabas and I alone who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
World English Bible
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Worrell New Testament
Or have only I and Barnabas no right to give up working?
Worsley New Testament
Or is it I only and Barnabas, that have not power to forbear working?
Youngs Literal Translation
or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 9:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle
5 Have we not the right to take along with us a believing wife, as do the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas (Peter)? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to stop doing manual labor [in order to support our ministry]? 7 [Consider this:] Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?
Cross References
Acts 4:36
Now Joseph, a Levite and native of Cyprus, who was surnamed
Acts 11:22
The news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
Acts 13:1-2
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets [who spoke a new message of God to the people] and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called
Acts 13:50
But the Jews incited the devout, prominent women and the leading men of the city, and instigated persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them forcibly out of their district.
Acts 14:12
They began calling Barnabas, Zeus [chief of the Greek gods], and Paul, Hermes [messenger of the Greek gods], since he took the lead in speaking.
Acts 15:36-37
After some time Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers and sisters (believers) in every city where we preached the message of the Lord, and see how they are doing.”
Acts 18:3
and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them; and they worked together for they were tent-makers.
Acts 20:34-35
You know personally that these hands ministered to my own needs [working in manual labor] and to [those of] the people who were with me.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are continually poorly dressed, and we are roughly treated, and wander homeless.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember,
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined or inappropriate manner when we were with you [we were never idle or lazy, nor did we avoid our duties],