1 Corinthians 9:5

Don't Paul and Barnabas have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as the other apostles, the Lord's brothers, and Peter do? Marriage and its support is a legitimate apostolic right.

Cross-references · 23

• John 1:42And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
• Matt 8:14And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.
• Heb 13:4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• Gal 1:19But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.
• 1 Cor 7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
• Acts 1:14These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
• 1 Cor 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
• Luke 6:15Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
• Song 5:1–2I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
• 1 Tim 3:2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
• Titus 1:6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
• Mark 1:30But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
• 1 Cor 7:15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
• Song 4:12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
• 1 Tim 5:2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
• Rom 16:1I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
• 1 Cor 1:12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
• Matt 12:46–50While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
• John 2:12After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
• Mark 6:3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
• Matt 13:55Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
• 1 Tim 4:3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
• Song 4:9–10Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

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