1 Corinthians 9:14

American Standard Version (1901)

Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 10:10 : 10 no wallet for [your] journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
  • 1 Cor 9:4 : 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. 18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

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  • 1 Cor 9:6-13
    8 verses
    81%

    6Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

    7What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

    8Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

    9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,

    10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.

    11If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

    12If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

    13Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
    4 verses
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    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

    16For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

    17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

  • 1 Tim 5:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

    18For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.

  • Luke 10:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

    8And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

  • Acts 20:34
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    34Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-10
    3 verses
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    8neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

    9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

    10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

    8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

    9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;

  • Rom 15:16
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    16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 9:5-7
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    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

    6But this [I say], He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

    7[ Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
    69%

    9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

  • 2 Thess 3:12
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    12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

  • 1 Pet 5:2
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    2Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4Have we no right to eat and to drink?

  • Matt 10:10
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    10no wallet for [your] journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

  • Rom 14:8
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    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

  • Rom 13:6
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    6For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • 1 Cor 7:17
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    17Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

  • Mark 13:10
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    10And the gospel must first be preached unto all the nations.

  • Gal 6:6
    67%

    6But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

  • Rom 12:7
    67%

    7or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Rom 10:15
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    15and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

  • 2 Cor 8:9
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    9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.