Catholic Public Domain Version
"If we have sown spiritual things in you, is it important if we harvest from your worldly things? "
— 1 Corinthians 9:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?”
“If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter 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?”
Am I saying these things according to man? Or does the law not also say these things?
For it is written in the law of Moses: “You shall not bind the mouth of an ox, while it is treading out the grain.” Is God here concerned with the oxen?
Or is he saying this, indeed, for our sake? These things were written specifically for us, because he who plows, ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes, too, in hope of receiving the produce.
If we have sown spiritual things in you, is it important if we harvest from your worldly things?
If others are sharers in this authority over you, why are we not more entitled? And yet we have not used this authority. Instead, we bear all things, lest we give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
Do you not know that those who work in the holy place eat the things that are for the holy place, and that those who serve at the altar also share with the altar?
So, too, has the Lord ordained that those who announce the Gospel should live by the Gospel.