1 Corinthians 9:7

The English Standar Version

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

Cross References

Proverbs 27:18

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

Proverbs 27:27

There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

Isaiah 7:22

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

Acts 20:28

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God,[3] which he obtained with his own blood.[4]

Deuteronomy 18:8

then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.[4]

Deuteronomy 20:6

And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

1 Timothy 1:18

This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about 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

shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight,[1] not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;[2] not for shameful gain, but eagerly;