Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

New American Standard Bible

Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Have we
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἐξουσία 
Exousia 
Usage: 79

to eat
φάγω 
Phago 
Usage: 54

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

References

Fausets

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.

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