1 Corinthians 9:8

Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

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Cross References

Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Romans 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

1 Corinthians 14:34Your women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who has given you 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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