1 Corinthians 9:8

Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

In Context

7What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

9For it is written in the law of Moses: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain? Has God a care for oxen?

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Cross References

Romans 6:19I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness.

1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women keep silence in the assemblies; for they ire not permitted to speak; but they must be in subjection, as also says the law.

1 Thessalonians 4:8Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:4-15

Rights of a Christian Minister. ( a. d. 57.) 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these… Read the whole commentary →

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