1 Corinthians 9:4

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Have we no right to take food and drink?

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  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you: 9 Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching. 18 For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
  • Matt 10:10 : 10 Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
  • 1 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk? 8 Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same? 9 For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders? 10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it. 11 If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? 12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ. 13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? 14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

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  • 1 Cor 9:5-8
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    5 Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

    6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?

    7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

    8 Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

  • 1 Cor 9:11-15
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    11 If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

    12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

    13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

    14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-10
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    8 And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

    9 Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

    10 For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3 My answer to those who are judging me is this.

  • 1 Cor 4:10-12
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    10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

    11 Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;

    12 And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
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    21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

    22 What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

  • John 4:31-33
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    31 While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

    32 But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

    33 So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1 Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22 Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Thess 3:12
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    12 Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

  • Zech 7:6
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    6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

  • 1 Cor 15:32
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    32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    18 What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

  • 1 Tim 6:8
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    8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2 Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4 The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

  • Luke 10:7
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    7 And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12 That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 4:8
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    8 For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16 The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6 But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

  • Acts 20:34
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    34 You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3 Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

    4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23 Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

  • Heb 13:10
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    10 We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • Luke 9:13
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    13 But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

  • Rom 14:17
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    17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 8:4
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    4 Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints: