1 Corinthians 9:11

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If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

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  • Rom 15:27 : 27 Yes, they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated also to minister to them with material blessings.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 The one who is taught the word should share all good things with the one who teaches.
  • 2 Cor 11:15 : 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.
  • 2 Kgs 5:13 : 13 But his servants approached him and said, 'My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he says to you, “Wash and be cleansed”? '
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.
  • 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.

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  • 1 Cor 9:12-14
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    12If 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.

    13Do 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?

    14In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 9:6-10
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    6Or is it only Barnabas and I who lack the right to not work for a living?

    7Who serves as a soldier at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

    8Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same?

    9For it is written in the law of Moses: "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen that God is concerned about?

    10Or 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.

  • 2 Cor 9:4-6
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    4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we would be ashamed—not to mention you—in this confidence of boasting.

    5So I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go ahead to you and prepare in advance the generous gift you had promised, so that it may be ready as a blessing, and not as something given reluctantly.

    6Remember this: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

    8The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

    9Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-10
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    8We did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it. Instead, we worked with toil and hardship night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you.

    9It was not that we lack the right to receive support, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

    10For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If anyone is unwilling to work, they should not eat.

  • 2 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

    11You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which through us produces thanksgiving to God.

  • John 4:36-38
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    36The one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

    37For in this the saying is true: 'One sows, and another reaps.'

    38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

  • Gal 3:4
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    4Did you suffer so much for nothing—if it really was for nothing?

  • 1 Cor 3:8-9
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    8The one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive their reward according to their own labor.

    9For we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility.

    18What then is my reward? It is that when I preach the gospel, I may offer it free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • 1 Thess 2:8-9
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    8In the same way, being affectionately desirous of you, we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our very lives, because you had become dear to us.

    9Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4Do we not have the right to eat and drink?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

  • 2 Cor 10:14-16
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    14We are not overextending ourselves, as though we had not reached you. For we were the first to come to you with the gospel of Christ.

    15Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand,

    16so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast in work already done in another person's area.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20In fact, you put up with anyone who enslaves you, devours you, takes advantage of you, exalts himself, or strikes you in the face.

  • Rom 8:5
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    5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-8
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    7Do you look only at outward appearances? If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him consider again that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

    8Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  • Rom 8:9
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    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Him.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13Now in return—I speak as to children—open your heart wide as well.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such people realize that what we are in our letters while absent, we will be in our actions when present.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

  • Heb 6:9
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    9But we are confident of better things concerning you, dear friends—things that accompany salvation—even though we speak in this way.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For when someone says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' are you not acting like mere humans?

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20We are taking this precaution so that no one will criticize us regarding this generous gift we are administering.