⁷Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who^b shepherds a flock and does not drink^c from the milk of the flock? ⁸I am not saying these things according to a human perspective. Or does the law not also say these things? ⁹For in the law of Moses it is written, “You must not muzzle an ox while it^* is threshing.”^d It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it?^* ¹⁰Or doubtless does he speak for our sake^e? For it is written for our sake^f, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes ought to do so in hope of a share. ¹¹If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too great a thing if we reap material things from you? ¹²If others share this right over you, do we not do so even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all things, in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

¹³Do you not know that those performing the holy services eat the things from the temple, and those attending to the altar have a share with the altar? ¹⁴In the same way also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.

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Footnotes

bSome manuscripts have “Or who”
cLiterally “eat”
*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“threshing”) which is understood as temporal
dA quotation from Deut 25:4
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
eLiterally “for the sake of us”
fLiterally “for the sake of us”