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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Genesis 9:20
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
Isaiah 1:2
Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
Isaiah 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
Isaiah 1:4
O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Mark 12:2
And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
Luke 20:16
He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.
2 Timothy 2:6
It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.
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Genesis 18:8
And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.
Proverbs 27:27
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
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Exodus 25:2
Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.
Exodus 35:5
Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;
Exodus 35:21
And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.
Exodus 35:22
They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.
1 Chronicles 29:3
And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
1 Chronicles 29:5
Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?
1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.
Psalms 110:3
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Acts 5:4
While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
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Leviticus 6:16
And whatever is over Aaron and his sons may have for their food, taking it without leaven in a holy place; in the open space of the Tent of meeting they may take a meal of it.
Leviticus 6:17
It is not to be cooked with leaven. I have given it to them as their part of the offerings made by fire to me; it is most holy, as are the sin-offerings and the offerings for error.
Leviticus 6:18
Every male among the children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy.
Leviticus 7:8
And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him.
Leviticus 7:14
And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar.
Deuteronomy 18:8
His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.
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Numbers 5:9
And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.
Numbers 18:9
This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.
Numbers 18:10
As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
Numbers 18:11
And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
Numbers 18:14
Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.
Numbers 18:15
The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.
Numbers 18:16
Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Numbers 18:17
But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.
Numbers 18:18
Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.
Numbers 18:19
All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.
Nehemiah 10:36
As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:
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Deuteronomy 4:1
And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:25
Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.
John 7:22
Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.
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Deuteronomy 14:27
And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.
Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.
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Deuteronomy 23:24
When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.
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Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
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Deuteronomy 28:30
You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
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Judges 4:19
Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.
Proverbs 30:33
The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.
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Numbers 4:23
All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
1 Samuel 2:30
For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
Philemon 1:2
And to Apphia, our sister, and to Archippus, our brother in God's army, and to the church in your house:
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Nehemiah 5:14
Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.
Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 5:18
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
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Nehemiah 12:44
And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.
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Nehemiah 12:47
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
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Song of Solomon 4:16
Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.
Song of Solomon 6:11
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
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Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Matthew 21:34
And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.
Mark 11:13
And seeing a fig-tree in the distance with leaves, he went to see if by chance it had anything on it: and when he came to it, he saw nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for the fruit.
Luke 13:7
And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
Luke 20:10
And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing.
Luke 20:11
And he sent another servant, and they gave blows to him in the same way, and put shame on him, and sent him away with nothing.
Luke 20:12
And he sent a third, and they gave him wounds and put him out.
Luke 20:13
And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.
Luke 20:14
But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.
Luke 20:15
And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?
Luke 20:17
But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
Luke 20:18
Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.
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Jeremiah 48:40
For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.
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Isaiah 63:11
Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Jeremiah 13:20
Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?
Jeremiah 23:2
So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:3
And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.
Ezekiel 34:31
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.
Zechariah 11:17
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
Luke 12:32
Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
John 10:1
Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.
Acts 20:29
I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
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Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?
2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?
2 Corinthians 12:16
But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.
2 Corinthians 12:17
Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
2 Corinthians 12:18
I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?
Philippians 4:15
And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,
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Romans 6:13
And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
2 Corinthians 6:7
In the true word, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
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1 Corinthians 4:1
Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.
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1 Corinthians 4:2
And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.
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1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
1 Corinthians 8:12
And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.
1 Corinthians 9:20
And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.
1 Corinthians 9:21
To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.
1 Corinthians 9:23
And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
2 Corinthians 10:7
Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:
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2 Corinthians 9:5
So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.
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Matthew 10:40
He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.
Acts 28:10
Then they gave us great honour, and, when we went away, they put into the ship whatever things we were in need of.
Galatians 4:14
And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:29
So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:
Philippians 3:1
For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
1 Timothy 5:3
Give honour to widows who are truly widows.
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Matthew 10:9
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
Mark 6:8
And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;
Luke 9:3
And he said to them, Take nothing for your journey, no stick or bag or bread or money, and do not take two coats.
Luke 10:4
Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
Luke 10:8
And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:
Luke 10:9
And make well those in it who are ill and say to them, The kingdom of God is near to you.
Luke 10:10
But if you go into a town where they will not have you, go out into the streets of it and say,
Luke 10:11
Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.
Luke 10:12
I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.
Luke 22:35
And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.
Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
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Ephesians 3:17
So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
Colossians 2:6
As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
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Colossians 2:7
Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
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1 Timothy 5:23
Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
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Psalms 23:2
He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters.
1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.
1 Corinthians 9:26
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
1 Corinthians 10:4
And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
1 Peter 5:4
And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.
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