1 Corinthians 9:7

New International Version

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?

Cross References

Proverbs 27:18

The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.

Proverbs 27:27

You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.

Song of Solomon 8:12

But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.

Isaiah 7:22

And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

Deuteronomy 18:8

He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.

Deuteronomy 20:6

Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.

1 Timothy 1:18

Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well,

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your 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

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve;