1Cor 9:3-6 | ESV | STEP | This is my defense to those who would examine me .

a ver. 14; 1 Thess. 2:6, 9; 2 Thess. 3:8, 9

1 Corinthians 9:3-6

3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 4 ^aDo we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 ^bDo we not have the right to take along a believing wife, ^{▼▼Greek a sister as wife} as do the other apostles and ^dthe brothers of the Lord and ^eCephas? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?