1 Corinthians 9:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 15:27 : 27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
  • 2 Cor 11:15 : 15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
  • 2 Kgs 5:13 : 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
  • Matt 10:10 : 10 ‹Nor scrip for› [your] ‹journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.›

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