Parallel Verses
Webster
Have we not power 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 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?
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 them that examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 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?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor from men sought we glory, neither from you, nor yet from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught; but wrought with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
Matthew 10:10
Nor bag for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his food.
Luke 10:7
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
1 Corinthians 9:7-14
Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Galatians 6:6
Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.