Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Or is it only Barnabas and I that have no right to give up working for 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?
A Conservative Version
Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning 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?
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 not a right to take a Christian wife about with us, like the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I that have no right to give up working for a living? 7 What soldier ever pays his expenses out of his own pay? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the grapes? Who tends a flock and does not get any of the milk?
Cross References
Acts 4:36
Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,
Acts 11:22
The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.
Acts 13:1-2
There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.
Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
Acts 14:12
They called Barnabas Zeus, and Paul, because he was the principal speaker, Hermes.
Acts 15:36-37
Some time after, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come, let us go back and revisit the brothers in each of the towns where we made the Lord's message known, to see how they are doing."
Acts 18:3
and as they practiced the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers.
Acts 20:34-35
You know well enough that these hands of mine provided for my needs and my companions.
1 Corinthians 4:11-12
To this day we have gone hungry, thirsty, and ill-clad; we have had rough usage, we have had no home,
1 Thessalonians 2:9
You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you;