1 Corinthians 9:8

Do I say these things based on human authority? Does not the law also say this?

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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 its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink milk from it?

9For it is written in the law of Moses, “Do not put a muzzle on an ox when it is treading out the grain.” Is it really the oxen that God cares about?

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Cross References

Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not say such things, it is because they have no light of dawn. 1

Romans 6:19I speak like a man because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to uncleanness and to evil, in the same way now, present the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

1 Corinthians 14:34The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak. Instead, they should be in submission, as also the law says.

1 Thessalonians 4:8Therefore, he who rejects this rejects not people, but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

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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