1 Corinthians 9:4

World English Bible (2000)

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

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  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 neither 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; 9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
  • 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."
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Cor 9:7-9 : 7 What 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? 8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing? 9 For 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, 10 or 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. 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? 12 If 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. 13 Don'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? 14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
  • 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 9:5-8
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    5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

    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?

  • 1 Cor 9:11-15
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    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?

    14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

    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.

  • 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."

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3My defense to those who examine me is this.

  • 1 Cor 4:10-12
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    10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

    11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

    12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
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    21For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

  • John 4:31-33
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    31In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

    32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

    33The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

  • 1 Cor 9:1
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    1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

  • 1 Cor 10:22
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    22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 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 Cor 8:8
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    8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

  • Zech 7:6
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    6When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

  • 1 Cor 15:32
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    32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

  • 1 Cor 9:18
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    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 6:8
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    8But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

  • Luke 10:7
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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.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 4:8
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    8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

  • 1 Cor 7:6
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    6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

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

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Luke 6:3-4
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    3Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • Luke 9:13
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    13But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

  • Rom 14:17
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    17for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • 2 Cor 8:4
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    4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.