1 Corinthians 9:11
“If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall things, is it a great thing if wee shall reape your carnall things?”
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1 Corinthians 9:11 Context
9For it is written in the Law of Moyses, Thou shalt not muzzell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne: doth God take care for oxen? 10Or saith hee it altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that hee that ploweth, should plow in hope: and that hee that thresheth in hope, should bee partaker of his hope. 11If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall things, is it a great thing if wee shall reape your carnall things? 12If others bee partakers of this power ouer you, are not we rather? Neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, lest wee should hinder the Gospel of Christ. 13Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things, liue of the things of the Temple? and they which wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar?
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Other Translations for 1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
- King James Version
If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
- American Standard Version (1901)
If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?
- Basic English Bible
If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things?
- Darby Bible
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
- Webster's Bible
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
- Weymouth Bible
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
- World English Bible
If we sowen spiritual thingis to you, is it grete, if we repen youre fleischli thingis?
- Wycliffe Bible
If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great [is it] if we your fleshly things do reap?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Corinthians 9:11
9:11 Is it a great matter if we shall reap as much of your carnal things - As is needful for our sustenance? Do you give us things of greater value than those you receive from us?
People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 9:11
1Co 9:11 If we have sown to you spiritual things. Preached the gospel, converted them, built them up in Christ. This conserved their eternal interests. Carnal things. An earthly support.