1 Corinthians 9:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Who at any time pays the expenses for doing military service? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not get any of its milk?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ [Consider this:] What soldier at any time serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the fruit of it? Who tends a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Common English Bible

⁷ Who joins the army and pays their own way? Who plants a vineyard and doesn’t eat its fruit? Who shepherds a flock and doesn’t drink its milk?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Who has ever served as a soldier and paid his own stipend? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from its produce? Who pastures a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

1 Corinthians 9:7 Cross References

Proverbs 27:18

Anyone who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and anyone who takes care of a master will be honored.

Proverbs 27:27

there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your female servants.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand and the keepers of the fruit two hundred!

Isaiah 7:22

and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds and honey.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Deuteronomy 18:8

They shall have equal portions to eat, even though they have income from the sale of family possessions.

Deuteronomy 20:6

Has anyone planted a vineyard but not yet enjoyed its fruit? He should go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another be first to enjoy its fruit.

1 Timothy 1:18

This charge I commit to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight,

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.

1 Peter 5:2

to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it, not for sordid gain but eagerly.