1 Corinthians 9:7
Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
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1 Corinthians 9:7
Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
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1 Corinthians 9:9
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
1 Corinthians 9:11
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?
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we no right to take food and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:
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Deuteronomy 20:6
Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.
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Song of Solomon 8:12
My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
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2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh
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1 Timothy 5:17
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
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1 Timothy 6:12
Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
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