1 Corinthians 9:11
1 Corinthians chapter 9 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
KJV
King James Version · 1611If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
Context
v.10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.
v.11This passage
v.12If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 10:10
no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
- 2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
- Galatians 6:6
But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
- 2 Kings 5:13
And 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?
- Romans 15:27
Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.
- Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.