1 Corinthians 9:13

Know ye not, that they who serve in a temple, are fed from the temple? And they who serve at the altar, participate with the altar?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

In Context

12And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah.

14Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:18Behold the Israel who are in the flesh; are not they who eat the victims, participators of the altar?

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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