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... Focus ↗
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are... Focus ↗
3 My defence to those who examine me is this: Focus ↗
4 Have we not a right to eat and to drink? Focus ↗
5 have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren o... Focus ↗
6 Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work? Focus ↗
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? Focus ↗
9 For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is Go... Focus ↗
10 or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plough... Focus ↗
11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal thin... Focus ↗
12 If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, b... Focus ↗
13 Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple;... Focus ↗
14 So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings. Focus ↗
15 But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus i... Focus ↗
16 For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for... Focus ↗
17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an adm... Focus ↗
18 What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings cos... Focus ↗
19 For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible]. Focus ↗
20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under... Focus ↗
21 to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God (Elohim), but as legitimately subje... Focus ↗
22 I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all thing... Focus ↗
23 And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them. Focus ↗
24 Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in... Focus ↗
25 But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they m... Focus ↗
26 *I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. Focus ↗
27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself... Focus ↗