1 Corinthians 9:6–14

⁶Or is it only Barnabas and I ^hwho have no right to refrain from working? ⁷Who ever ⁱgoes to war at his own expense? Who ^jplants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who ^ktends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

⁸Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also? ⁹For it is written in the law of Moses, ^l“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about? ¹⁰Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that ^mhe who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. ¹¹ⁿIf we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? ¹²If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more?

^oNevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things ^plest we hinder the gospel of Christ. ^13qDo you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the ^rtemple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? ¹⁴Even so ^sthe Lord has commanded ^tthat those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.