New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Corinthians 9:6-12

6Or do only 1 2Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from 3working? 7Who at any time serves 4as a soldier at his own expense? Who 5plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not 6consume some of the milk of the flock?

8I am not just asserting these things 7according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “8You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about 9oxen, is He? 10Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written 10for our sake, because 11the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops. 11 12If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we 13did not use this right, but we endure all things 14so that we will cause no hindrance to the 15gospel of Christ.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Acts 4:36 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 9:6 I.e., to support themselves ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat from ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Rom 3:5 ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18 ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 22:1-4; Prov 12:10 ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Rom 4:23f ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 9:10 2 Tim 2:6 ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 9:11 Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 9:12 Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 9:12 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12 ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 9:12 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12 ↩

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