1 Corinthians 9:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Do soldiers pay their own salaries? Don't people who raise grapes eat some of what they grow? Don't shepherds get milk from their own goats?

Cross References

Proverbs 27:18

Take care of a tree, and you will eat its fruit; look after your master, and you will be praised.

Proverbs 27:27

From the milk of the goats, you can make enough cheese to feed your family and all your servants.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vineyard is mine alone! Solomon can keep his silver and the others can keep their share of the profits.

Isaiah 7:22

but those who do will have enough milk to make yoghurt. In fact, everyone left in the land will eat yoghurt and honey.

Acts 20:28

Look after yourselves and everyone the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be like shepherds to God's church. It is the flock that he bought with the blood of his own Son.

Deuteronomy 18:8

Some Levites may have money from selling family possessions, and others may not. But all Levites serving at the place of worship will receive the same amount of food from the sacrifices and gifts brought by the people.

Deuteronomy 20:6

If any of you have planted a vineyard but haven't had your first grape harvest, you may go home. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to enjoy your grapes.

1 Timothy 1:18

Timothy, my son, the instructions I am giving you are based on what some prophets once said about you. If you follow these instructions, you will fight like a good soldier.

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight a good fight for the faith and claim eternal life. God offered it to you when you clearly told about your faith, while so many people listened.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought well. I have finished the race, and I have been faithful.

1 Peter 5:2

Just as shepherds watch over their sheep, you must watch over everyone God has placed in your care. Do it willingly in order to please God, and not simply because you think you must. Let it be something you want to do, instead of something you do merely to make money.