1 Corinthians 9:7

New Century Version

No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary. No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes. No person takes care of a flock without drinking some of the milk.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:18

Whoever tends a fig tree gets to eat its fruit, and whoever takes care of his master will receive honor.

Proverbs 27:27

There will be plenty of goat’s milk to feed you and your family and to make your servant girls healthy.

Song of Solomon 8:12

But my own vineyard is mine to give. Solomon, the twenty-five pounds of silver are for you, and five pounds are for those who tend the fruit.

Isaiah 7:22

There will be only enough milk for that person to eat milk curds. All who remain in the land will go back to eating just milk curds and honey.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

Deuteronomy 18:8

They all will have an equal share of the food. That is separate from what he has received from the sale of family possessions.

Deuteronomy 20:6

Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? He may go home, because he might die in battle and someone else would enjoy his vineyard.

1 Timothy 1:18

Timothy, my child, I am giving you a command that agrees with the prophecies that were given about you in the past. I tell you this so you can follow them and fight the good fight.

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of faith, grabbing hold of the life that continues forever. You were called to have that life when you confessed the good confession before 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

shepherd God’s flock, for whom you are responsible. Watch over them because you want to, not because you are forced. That is how God wants it. Do it because you are happy to serve, not because you want money.