Parallel Verses
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?
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 And this is my answer to them that call me to account: have we not power to eat and to drink? 4 have 5 we not power to lead about with us a sister a wife as well as other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others: though we might have expected maintenance, as the apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:8-9
neither did we eat any one's bread for nothing; but with labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you.
Matthew 10:10
nor two coats, nor shoes, nor weapons; for the laborer is worthy of his food.
Luke 10:7
But remain in the same house, eating and drinking such as they have; for the laborer is worthy of his hire.
1 Corinthians 9:7-14
Who ever goes a warfare at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and doth not eat of the fruit of it? or who feedeth a flock, and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?
Galatians 6:6
And let him, that is instructed in the word, communicate in all good things to him that instructeth.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders, who preside well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially those that labour in preaching and teaching.