1 Corinthians 9:14

World English Bible (2000)

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 10:10 : 10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
  • 1 Cor 9:4 : 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. 18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

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  • 1 Cor 9:6-13
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    6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

    7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

    8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

    9For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

    10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

    11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

    12If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

    13Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

    17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • 1 Tim 5:17-18
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    17Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

    18For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

  • Luke 10:7-8
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    7Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

    8Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

  • Acts 20:34
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    34You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

  • 2 Thess 3:8-10
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    8neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

    9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:7-9
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    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

    8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

    9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

  • Rom 15:16
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    16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 9:5-7
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    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

    6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

    7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

  • 2 Thess 3:12
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    12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

  • 1 Pet 5:2
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    2Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4Have we no right to eat and to drink?

  • Matt 10:10
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    10Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

  • Rom 14:8
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    8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

  • Rom 13:6
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    6For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • 1 Cor 7:17
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    17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • Mark 13:10
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    10The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

  • Gal 6:6
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    6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

  • Rom 10:15
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    15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"

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