1 Corinthians 9:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

To lead

A sister

1 Corinthians 7:15

Romans 16:1

1 Timothy 5:2

The brethren

Galatians 1:19

Bible References

To lead

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

A sister

If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

Herewith I introduce our sister Phoebe to you, who is a servant of the Church at Cenchreae,

the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

The brethren

While He was still addressing the people His mother and His brothers were standing on the edge of the crowd desiring to speak to Him.

Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judah?

Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.

Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot;

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.