1 Corinthians 9:5-9
1 Corinthians 9:5
Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or do only Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from working?
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?
1 Corinthians 9:8
I am not just asserting these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well?
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the Law of Moses: “You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?