Verse 7
1 Corinthians 9:7
Darby Translation
7
Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
Original Language Text
greek
τίς στρατεύεται ἰδίοις ὀψωνίοις ποτέ; τίς φυτεύει ἀμπελῶνα καὶ ⸂τὸν καρπὸν⸃ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐσθίει; ⸀τίς ποιμαίνει ποίμνην καὶ ἐκ τοῦ γάλακτος τῆς ποίμνης οὐκ ἐσθίει;
English Translation
Who goes to war at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who shepherds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Yashua (Jesus) our Lord? are not *ye* my work in...
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If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are...
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3
My defence to those who examine me is this:
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4
Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
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have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren o...
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6
Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
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7
Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or...
8
Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?
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9
For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is Go...
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10
or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plough...
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11
If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal thin...
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12
If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, b...
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13
Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple;...
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14
So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.
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15
But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus i...
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16
For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for...
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17
For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an adm...
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18
What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings cos...
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19
For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].
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20
And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under...
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21
to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God (Elohim), but as legitimately subje...
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22
I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all thing...
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23
And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
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24
Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in...
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25
But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they m...
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26
*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
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27
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself...
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