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 know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
• Acts 13:1–2Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
• Acts 4:36Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
• 1 Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
• Acts 18:3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
• Acts 14:12They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.
• Acts 20:34–35You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
• Acts 11:22The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
• 1 Cor 4:11–12Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
• Acts 15:36–37After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
• Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Greek word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.