Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Holman Bible
Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
International Standard Version
We have the right to earn our food, don't we?
A Conservative Version
Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?
American Standard Version
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Amplified
Have we not the right to our food and drink [at the expense of the churches]?
An Understandable Version
Do we [i.e., Barnabas and Paul. See verse 6] not have the right to eat and drink [i.e., at the expense of the church]?
Anderson New Testament
Have we not the right to eat and drink?
Bible in Basic English
Have we no right to take food and drink?
Common New Testament
Do we not have the right to food and drink?
Daniel Mace New Testament
have we not a right to meat and drink?
Darby Translation
Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
Godbey New Testament
Have we not a right to eat and drink?
Goodspeed New Testament
Have we not a right to our food and drink?
John Wesley New Testament
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Julia Smith Translation
have we not power to eat and to drink?
King James 2000
Have we not the right to eat and to drink?
Modern King James verseion
Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Moffatt New Testament
Have we no right to eat and drink at the expense of the churches?
Montgomery New Testament
Have I no right to claim food and drink?
NET Bible
Do we not have the right to financial support?
New Heart English Bible
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Noyes New Testament
Have we not a right to eat and drink?
Sawyer New Testament
Have we not a right to eat and drink?
The Emphasized Bible
Have we not a right to eat and drink?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Have we not power to eat and drink?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Have not we a right to food and drink?
Webster
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Weymouth New Testament
Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
Williams New Testament
It cannot be that we have no right to our food and drink, can it?
World English Bible
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Worrell New Testament
Have we no right to eat, and to drink?
Youngs Literal Translation
have we not authority to eat and to drink?
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 9:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle
3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to take along a sister [as] wife, like the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from people, neither from you nor from others.
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but with toil and labor, [we were] working night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you,
Matthew 10:10
Do not [take] a traveler's bag for the road, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff, for the worker [is] deserving of his provisions.
Luke 10:7
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking {whatever they provide}, for the worker [is] worthy of his pay. Do not move from house to house.
1 Corinthians 9:7-14
Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?
Galatians 6:6
Now the one who is taught the word must share in all good [things] with the one who teaches.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching.