KJV King James Version
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
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1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
WEB World English Bible
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
ASV American Standard Version
If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
If we to you the spiritual things did sow—great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 9
8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he [it] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [this] is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 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?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
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Romans 15:27It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.Galatians 6:6Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.2 Corinthians 11:15Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.Matthew 10:10Nor scrip for [your] journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.2 Kings 5:13And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?Malachi 3:8-9Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
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