Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?
New American Standard Bible
Or do only
King James Version
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Holman Bible
Or do Barnabas
International Standard Version
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living?
American Standard Version
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?
Amplified
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to stop doing manual labor [in order to support our ministry]?
An Understandable Version
Or, are Barnabas and I the only ones who must have a [secular] job for our living?
Anderson New Testament
Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?
Bible in Basic English
Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?
Common New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or I and Barnabas, are we only excluded the privilege of not working?
Darby Translation
Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
Godbey New Testament
Have I and Barnabas alone not the right to forbear working?
Goodspeed New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I that have no right to give up working for a living?
John Wesley New Testament
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?
Julia Smith Translation
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power not to work?
King James 2000
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we the right to forbear working?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right {to refrain from working}?
Modern King James verseion
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority whether not to work?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Either only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?
Moffatt New Testament
What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living?
Montgomery New Testament
Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?
NET Bible
Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?
New Heart English Bible
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Noyes New Testament
Or am I alone and Barnabas bound to labor with our own hands?
Sawyer New Testament
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?
The Emphasized Bible
Or have, only I and Barnabas, not a right to forbear working?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
or I alone and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear labour?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread?
Webster
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?
Weymouth New Testament
Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
Williams New Testament
Or is it Barnabas and I alone who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
World English Bible
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Worrell New Testament
Or have only I and Barnabas no right to give up working?
Worsley New Testament
Or is it I only and Barnabas, that have not power to forbear working?
Youngs Literal Translation
or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 9:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle
5 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? 6 Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living? 7 Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?
Cross References
Acts 4:36
And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles, Barnabas (which is, being translated, son of encouragement), a Levite, a Cypriot by nationality,
Acts 11:22
And the word about them was heard in the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they dispatched Barnabas to pass through as far as Antioch,
Acts 13:1-2
Now there were some men from the congregation that was in Antioch, prophets and teachers, including Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen reared with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 13:50
But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries.
Acts 14:12
And they actually called Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the man who led the word.
Acts 15:36-37
And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, After returning, surely we could help our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, how they fare.
Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and was working, for they were of the tentmakers craft.
Acts 20:34-35
Ye yourselves know that these hands served my needs, and to those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
For ye yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us. Because we did not act disorderly among you,