1 Corinthians 9:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating its produce? Or who shepherds a flock without using some of the milk from the flock?

Cross References

Proverbs 27:18

Those who tend a fig tree eat its fruit; so those attentive to their master will be honored.

Proverbs 27:27

And there will be ample goat’s milk for your food, food for your house, sustenance for your maidens.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vineyard is at my own disposal; the thousand pieces are for you, Solomon, and two hundred for the caretakers of its fruit.

Isaiah 7:22

and from their abundant yield of milk he shall eat curds; curds and honey shall be the food of all who are left in the land.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own blood.

Deuteronomy 18:8

he shall receive the same portions to eat, along with his stipends and patrimony. Prophets.

Deuteronomy 20:6

Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard and not yet plucked its fruit? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another pluck its fruit.

1 Timothy 1:18

I entrust this charge to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophetic words once spoken about you. Through them may you fight a good fight

1 Timothy 6:12

Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.

1 Peter 5:2

Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly.