Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Either, have we not power to lead about a sister to wife as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife
International Standard Version
We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord's brothers, and Cephas, don't we?
A Conservative Version
Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
American Standard Version
Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Amplified
Have we not the right to take along with us a believing wife, as do the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas (Peter)?
An Understandable Version
Do we not have the right to take a believing [i.e., a Christian] wife with us [on our preaching tours], just like the rest of the apostles, and the Lord's brothers do [i.e., James, Joseph, Judas and Simon. Mark 6:3], and Cephas [i.e., Peter]?
Anderson New Testament
Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Bible in Basic English
Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Common New Testament
Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Daniel Mace New Testament
have not we the liberty to take a christian woman with us in our travels, as well as the rest of the apostles, as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas did?
Darby Translation
have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Godbey New Testament
Have we not a right to lead about a sister as a wife, as the other apostles also, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Goodspeed New Testament
Have we not a right to take a Christian wife about with us, like the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?
John Wesley New Testament
Have we not power to lead about with us a sister, a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Peter?
Julia Smith Translation
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
King James 2000
Have we not the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do we not have the right to take along a sister [as] wife, like the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Modern King James verseion
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?
Moffatt New Testament
Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?
Montgomery New Testament
Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?
NET Bible
Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?
New Heart English Bible
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Noyes New Testament
Have we not a right to carry about with us a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Sawyer New Testament
Have we not a right to lead about a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles; and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
The Emphasized Bible
Have we not a right to take round, a sister wife, - as even the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Have we not power to carry about with us a sister wife, as do also the other apostles, even the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Have not we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other Apostles and the Master's brothers and Kephas all do?
Webster
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?
Weymouth New Testament
Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do--and the Lord's brothers and Peter?
Williams New Testament
It cannot be that we have no right to take a Christian wife about with us, can it, as well as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers, and Cephas?
World English Bible
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Worrell New Testament
Have we no right to lead about a sister as our wife, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Worsley New Testament
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Themes
Christ » Appears, after his resurrection » Brethren of
Christian ministers » Marriage of
Jesus Christ » Miscellaneous facts concerning » Brothers (physical) of
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 9:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Either, have we not power to lead about a sister to wife as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Either only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?
Cross References
Matthew 8:14
And then Jesus went to Peter's house, and saw his wife's mother lying, sick of a fever.
John 1:42
And brought him to Jesus. And Jesus beheld him and said, "Thou art Simon the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas," which is by interpretation, a stone.
Acts 1:14
These all continued with one accord, in prayer, and supplication with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
1 Corinthians 7:7
For I would that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, another after that.
Galatians 1:19
No other of the apostles saw I, save James the Lord's brother.
Song of Songs 4:9-10
Thou hast bewitched my heart, O my sister, my spouse; thou hast bewitched my heart with one of thine eyes, and with one chain of thy neck.
Song of Songs 4:12
Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.
Song of Songs 5:1-2
Come into my garden O my sister, my Spouse: I have gathered my Myrrh with my spice. I will eat my honey and my honeycomb, I will drink my wine and my milk. Eat, O ye friends, drink and be merry, O ye beloved.
Matthew 12:46-50
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without the doors, desiring to speak with him.
Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brethren be called, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
Mark 1:30
And Simon's mother-in-law lay sick of a fever, and anon they told him of her.
Mark 6:3
Is not this that carpenter: Mary's son, the brother of James, and Joseph and of Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they were offended by the reason of him.
Luke 6:15
Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon called Zealotes,
John 2:12
After that, descended he into Capernaum, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: But continued not many days there.
Romans 16:1
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a minister of the congregation of Cenchreae,
1 Corinthians 1:12
And this is it that I mean: how that commonly among you, one sayeth, "I hold of Paul"; Another, "I hold of Apollos"; the third, "I hold of Cephas"; and the fourth that, "I hold of Christ."
1 Corinthians 7:15
But and if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not in subjection to such. God hath called us in peace.
1 Corinthians 7:39
The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:2
Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.
1 Timothy 5:2
the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all pureness.
Titus 1:6
If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
Hebrews 13:4
Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.