NASB
"I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?"
— 1 Corinthians 9:8, NASB
“Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?”
“Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? ”
“Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?”
“Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?”
“Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say; these things?”
“Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?”
“Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?”
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?
Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?
Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?
I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING." God is not concerned about oxen, is He?
Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?