New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Corinthians 9:3-10

3My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 1 2Do we not have a right to eat and drink? 5 3 4Do we not have a right to take along a 5believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the 6brothers of the Lord, and 7 8Cephas? 6Or do only 9 10Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from 11working? 7Who at any time serves 12as a soldier at his own expense? Who 13plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not 14consume some of the milk of the flock?

8I am not just asserting these things 15according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “16You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about 17oxen, is He? 10Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written 18for our sake, because 19the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it? ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 9:4 1 Cor 9:14; 1 Thess 2:6, 9; 2 Thess 3:8f ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it? ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 9:5 1 Cor 7:7f ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as a wife ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 12:46 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Peter’s Aramaic name ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Matt 8:14; John 1:42 ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Rom 3:5 ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 22:1-4; Prov 12:10 ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Rom 4:23f ↩
19. 1 Corinthians 9:10 2 Tim 2:6 ↩

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