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1 Corinthians 9:7-9
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7 Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who[a] shepherds a flock and does not drink[b] from the milk of the flock? 8 I am not saying these things according to a human perspective. Or does the law not also say these things? 9 For in the law of Moses it is written, “You must not muzzle an ox while it[c] is threshing.”[d] It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it?[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Some manuscripts have “Or who”
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Literally “eat”
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:9 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“threshing”) which is understood as temporal
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:9 A quotation from Deut 25:4
  5. 1 Corinthians 9:9 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
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