1 Corinthians 9:6

Are only Paul and Barnabas required to work for a living rather than be supported? He points out that they, too, have the right not to labor at a trade.

Cross-references · 11

• 2 Th 3:7–9For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,
• Acts 13:1–2Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
• Acts 4:36Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),
• 1 Th 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
• Acts 18:3and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
• Acts 14:12Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
• Acts 20:34–35You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
• Acts 11:22When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
• 1 Cor 4:11–12To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
• Acts 15:36–37Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
• Acts 13:50The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.

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