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1 Corinthians 9:10

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or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

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1 Corinthians 9:10 in other translations

or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.

1 Corinthians 9:10 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 9:10 in context

  1. 8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
  2. 9For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
  3. 10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
  4. 11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
  5. 12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.