Verse 31

You and your households may eat it anywhere, as it is your wages in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 10:10 : 10 Do not bring a traveling bag for the journey, or two shirts, or sandals, or a staff; for a worker is worthy of his food.
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.
  • 1 Cor 9:10-14 : 10 Or does He say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you? 12 If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 13 Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 The elders who lead well should be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. 18 For the Scripture says, 'You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing,' and, 'The worker is worthy of his wages.'
  • Deut 14:22-23 : 22 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. 23 You shall eat the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He chooses for His name to dwell, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in what way were you less favored than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 The one who is taught the word should share all good things with the one who teaches.