American Standard Version
"If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? "
— 1 Corinthians 9:11, American Standard Version
“If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?”
“If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?”
“If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?”
“If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?”
“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?”
“If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?”
Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,
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.
If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?
Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.