1 Corinthians 9:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great `is it' if we your fleshly things do reap?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 15:27 : 27 for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.
  • 2 Cor 11:15 : 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
  • 2 Kgs 5:13 : 13 And his servants come nigh, and speak unto him, and say, `My father, a great thing had the prophet spoken unto thee -- dost thou not do `it'? and surely, when he hath said unto thee, Wash, and be clean.'
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering! 9 With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it.
  • Matt 10:10 : 10 nor scrip for the way, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staff -- for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.

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    12if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

    13Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

    14so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

  • 1 Cor 9:6-10
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    6or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?

    7who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

    8According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

    9for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?

    10or because of us by all means doth He say `it'? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading `ought' of his hope to partake in hope.

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    4lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

    5Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

    6And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

    8because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

    9and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

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    8nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

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    10for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

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    10and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

    11in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,

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    36`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

    37for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

    38I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

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    4so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.

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    8and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

    9for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

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    17for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

    18What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

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    37and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

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    8so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

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    4have we not authority to eat and to drink?

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    11whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

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    14for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

    15not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,

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    5For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

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    7The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;

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    4for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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    20avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,