1 Corinthians 9:5

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

In context

3 This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

4 Have we no right to food and to drink?

5 Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

6 Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

BSB Berean Standard Bible: Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
KJV 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?
WEB 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?
ASV 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?
YLT Young's 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?
DBY 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?
WBS Webster Bible: 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?