1 Corinthians 9:8

Is it on man's authority that I am saying these things, or doth not the Law too say the same?

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Who ever serveth as a soldier at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard without eating its fruit? Or who tendeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?

9For it is written in the law of Moses: “Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out grain.” Is it for oxen that God careth?

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Cross References

Isaiah 8:20To the word, to the revelation! If they speak not according to this, For them no bright morning shall arise.

Romans 6:19I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.

1 Corinthians 14:34let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as also saith the Law.

1 Thessalonians 4:8He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to 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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