1 Corinthians 9:11

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If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

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  • Rom 15:27 : 27 It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 Let him who is taught in the word share with him who teaches in all good things.
  • 2 Cor 11:15 : 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • 2 Kgs 5:13 : 13 And his servants came near, and spoke to 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 clean?
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, 'In what way have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
  • Matt 10:10 : 10 Nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs: for the worker is worthy of his food.

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  • 1 Cor 9:12-14
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    12If others are partakers of this right over you, should not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

    13Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?

    14Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 9:6-10
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    6Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from working?

    7Who goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

    8Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

    9For it is written in the Law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.' Does God care for oxen?

    10Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

  • 2 Cor 9:4-6
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    4Lest if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) should be ashamed of this same confident boasting.

    5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brethren, that they would go ahead to you and prepare in advance your generous gift, which had been promised before, that it might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not as of covetousness.

    6But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

    8For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

    9And let us not grow weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-10
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    8Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but we worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

    9Not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

    10For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

  • 2 Cor 9:10-11
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    10Now he who supplies seed to the sower also provides bread for your food, and multiplies your seed sown, and increases the fruits of your righteousness;

    11Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which through us produces thanksgiving to God.

  • John 4:36-38
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    36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

    38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.

  • Gal 3:4
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    4Have you suffered so many things in vain, if indeed it is in vain?

  • 1 Cor 3:8-9
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    8Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    9For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.

  • 1 Thess 2:8-9
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    8So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.

    9For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: for working night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached 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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    11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:14-16
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    14For we do not extend ourselves beyond our measure, as though we did not reach to you: for we have come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

    15Not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

    16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20For you bear it if someone brings you into bondage, if someone devours you, if someone takes from you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on 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, the things of the Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-8
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    7Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

    8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction, I should 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 dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13Now in return for the same (I speak as to my children), you also be enlarged.

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

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such a person consider this, that as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

  • Heb 6:9
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    9But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I do not mean that others should be relieved and you burdened;

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20Avoiding this, that anyone should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;