1 Corinthians 9:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:18 : 18 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
  • Deut 20:6 : 6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
  • 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
  • 2 Tim 2:3-4 : 3 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
  • 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
  • Prov 27:27 : 27 There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.
  • Song 8:12 : 12 My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; Two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover
  • Isa 7:22 : 22 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.
  • Jer 23:2-3 : 2 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh. 3 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
  • John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God which he purchased with his own blood.
  • 1 Cor 3:6-8 : 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
  • 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:6
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    6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.

  • 1 Cor 9:6
    79%

    6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

  • 1 Cor 9:8-14
    7 verses
    79%

    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 Gospel 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 Gospel should live from the Gospel.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
    76%

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

  • 2 Thess 3:8-12
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    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.

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

    11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

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

  • Luke 10:7
    74%

    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.

  • Luke 17:7-9
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    74%

    7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

    8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

    9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
    73%

    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 Cor 9:4
    72%

    4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

  • 1 Cor 3:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

  • Ps 129:7
    72%

    7 With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Matt 10:10
    72%

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

  • 2 Cor 9:10
    72%

    10 Now 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;

  • 1 Pet 5:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

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

    3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
    72%

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

  • 2 Tim 2:4
    71%

    4 No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 For 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.

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

  • Zech 7:6
    71%

    6 When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

  • Eccl 3:9
    71%

    9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

  • John 4:36-37
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    70%

    36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

  • Prov 12:11
    70%

    11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

  • Ps 107:37
    70%

    37 Sow fields, plant vineyards, And reap the fruits of increase.

  • 2 Cor 11:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

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

    9 When 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.

  • Prov 16:26
    69%

    26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; For his mouth urges him on.

  • Deut 28:39
    69%

    39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

  • Matt 20:7
    69%

    7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

  • 1 Sam 8:15
    69%

    15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

  • Job 31:39
    69%

    39 If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, Or have caused the owners of it to lose their life:

  • Exod 22:5
    69%

    5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

  • Deut 25:4
    69%

    4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

  • Lev 19:9
    69%

    9 "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

  • Lev 25:20
    69%

    20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

  • Hag 1:6
    69%

    6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."