18 Bible Verses about Rights

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1 Corinthians 7:3-5

Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband. The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife. Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

Ephesians 5:22-33

Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to husbands in every thing.read more.
Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless. Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; for we are members of his body. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery; but I speak of Christ and the church. But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.

1 Corinthians 9:1-17

AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my apostleship in the Lord. My defense to those who condemn me is this;read more.
Have we not a right to eat and drink? Have we not a right to lead about a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles; and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor? Who ever goes on a military expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats not the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of the flock? Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does not the law also say the same? For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for oxen? or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope should partake of it. If we have sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly things? And if others have this right, do we not have it more? But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not impede the gospel of Christ. Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar? So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel. But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain. For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel. For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship.

1 Timothy 5:17-18

Let the elders who rule well be accounted worthy of a double compensation, especially those who labor in word and teaching. For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes; and, The laborer is worthy of his reward.

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