A moment in scripture
1 Corinthians 9:4
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Have we not power to eat and to drink?
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Corinthians 9:2
If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 9:3
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
- 1 Corinthians 9:5
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?
- 1 Corinthians 9:6
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.