1 Corinthians 9:7
What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
6Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
8Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?
Cross References
Acts 20:28"Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.
2 Corinthians 10:4The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.
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 →