1 Corinthians 9:8

Am I saying this on human authority only, or does not the Law also say the same?

Montgomery 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 soldier ever serves at his own expense? What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk?

9Yea, in the Law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while he is treading out the grain.

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Cross References

Romans 6:19I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

1 Corinthians 14:34"In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.

1 Thessalonians 4:8So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave 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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