1 Corinthians 9:10

World English Bible (2000)

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

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  • 2 Tim 2:6 : 6 The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.
  • Rom 4:23-24 : 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
  • Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
  • 2 Cor 4:15 : 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
  • Luke 17:7-8 : 7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' 8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
  • John 4:35-38 : 35 Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

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    6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

    7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

    8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

    9For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

  • 1 Cor 9:11-14
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    11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

    12If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

    13Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

    14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

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    6The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • 2 Cor 9:9-10
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    9As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."

    10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

  • John 4:36-37
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    36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

    37For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

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    18For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

  • Gal 6:7-10
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    7Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

    9Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

    10So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

  • Rom 15:4
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    4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

  • Isa 28:24-25
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    24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

    25When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

  • 1 Cor 3:8-9
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    8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

    9For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

  • Deut 25:4
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    4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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    15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

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    8neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

    9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

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    11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • Mark 4:28
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    28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  • Rom 8:24-25
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    24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

    25But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

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    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

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    9"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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    15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

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    8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

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    11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.