Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Do we not have authority to eat and to 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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do we not have the right to eat and 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 answer to those who examine me is this: 4 Do we not have authority to eat and to drink? 5 Do we not have authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord do, and Cephas?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you
Matthew 10:10
nor a bag for the journey, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staves. For the workman is worthy of his food.
Luke 10:7
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things shared by them; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not move from house to house.
1 Corinthians 9:7-14
Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?
Galatians 6:6
But let him who is taught in the Word share with the one teaching in all good things.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in Word and doctrine.