1 Corinthians 9:14

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

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  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 9:4 : 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
  • 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 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.'
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 The one who is taught the word should share all good things with the one who teaches.

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  • 1 Cor 9:6-13
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    6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who lack the right to not work for a living?

    7 Who 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?

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

    9 For 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?

    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?

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15 But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

    16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to do so. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

    17 If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility.

    18 What 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 Tim 5:17-18
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    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.'

  • Luke 10:7-8
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    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.

    8 When you enter a town and they welcome you, eat what is set before you.

  • Acts 20:34
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    34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and those of my companions.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-10
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    8 We 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.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7 Did 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?

    8 I robbed other churches by taking support from them to serve you.

    9 And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept and will continue to keep myself from being a burden to you in any way.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10 Now 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.

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13 Because of the proof provided by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with all.

  • Rom 15:16
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    16 To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 9:5-7
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    5 So 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.

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

    7 Each person should give as they have decided in their heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9 Surely 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.

  • 2 Thess 3:12
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    12 To such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and earn their own living.

  • 1 Pet 5:2
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    2 Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, watching over them—not under compulsion, but freely; not for dishonest gain, but eagerly.

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

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

  • Matt 10:10
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1 Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.

  • Rom 14:8
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    8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • Rom 13:6
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    6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are servants of God, continually attending to this very thing.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

  • 1 Cor 7:17
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    17 Nevertheless, each person should live as the Lord has assigned them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16 so 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 8:13
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    13 Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • Mark 13:10
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    10 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.

  • Gal 6:6
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    6 The one who is taught the word should share all good things with the one who teaches.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4 But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak—not to please people, but to please God, who examines our hearts.

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

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6 For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they may be judged according to human standards in the body but live according to God in the spirit.

  • Rom 10:15
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    15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of peace, who bring the good news of good things!”

  • 2 Cor 8:9
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    9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.

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