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1 Corinthians 9:11
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Since we are the ones who gathered you and brought you onto God's outfit, shouldn't we be entitled to sustenance?
If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
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 to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things?
If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall things, is it a great thing if wee shall reape your carnall things?
If we have sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we shall reap of your fleshly things?
Yf we haue sowne vnto you spiritual thinges, is it a greate thige yf we reape yor bodely thiges?
if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?
If we have sown [the good seed of] spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great [is it] if we your fleshly things do reap?
Since we planted spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we should harvest material things?
If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
When we told the message to you, it was like planting spiritual seed. So we have the right to accept material things as our harvest from you.
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?
If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
If wee haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?
Now if we have sown among you spiritual things, is it too much that we should reap material things from you?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?Romans 15:27; Galatians 6:6;">[xr]
If we of the spirit have sown among you, is it a great thing if we from you of the body shall reap ?
If we have sowed among you the things of the Spirit, is it a great matter, if we reap from you the things of the body?
If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
Since we have planted spiritual seed among you, aren't we entitled to a harvest of physical food and drink?
We have planted God's Word among you. Is it too much to expect you to give us what we need to live each day?
If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits?
If, we, unto you, the things of the Spirit have sown, is it a great matter, if, we, of you, the things of the flesh shall reap?
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too great a thing if we reap material things from you?
If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?
We planted spiritual seed among you, so we should be able to harvest from you some things for this life. Surely that is not asking too much.
If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
If we sowen spiritual thingis to you, is it grete, if we repen youre fleischli thingis?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sown: Malachi 3:8, Malachi 3:9, Matthew 10:10, Romans 15:27, Galatians 6:6
a great: 2 Kings 5:13, 2 Corinthians 11:15
Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:20 - holy to Deuteronomy 26:11 - the Levite 2 Kings 4:42 - bread 2 Kings 5:26 - Is it a time 1 Corinthians 2:13 - spiritual things 2 Corinthians 6:4 - in all Philippians 4:14 - ye did
Cross-References
But the heves verely and erth which are now are kept by the same worde in store and reserved vnto fyre agaynst the daye of iudgement and perdicion of vngodly men.
Yf all these thinges shall perisshe what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conversacion and godlynes:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If we have sown unto you spiritual things,.... The preachers of the Gospel are compared to sowers of seed; the seed they sow is the word of God, which is like to seed, for its smallness and despicableness in the eyes of carnal men; and yet as the seed is the choicest which is laid by for sowing, the Gospel is most choice and excellent to true believers; like seed, it has a generative virtue through divine influence; and whereas unless sown into the earth, it brings forth no fruit, so neither does the word, unless it has a place in the heart, where, as seed in the ground, its operation is secret, its increase gradual, and its fruitfulness different. The ground they sow upon is, very various; some of their hearers are like the wayside, careless, ignorant, and on whom no impression is made; others are like the stony ground, who though for a while they express some affection and liking, yet not having the root of grace in them, whenever persecution arises, forsake the hearing of it; others are like the thorny ground, which are at first very promising, and greatly reformed, but inwardly full of the cares and lusts of the world, which choke the word, and make it unfruitful; and others are like the good ground, who are made good by the grace of God, understand the word, receive it, hold it fast, and in whom it is fruitful: sowing requires skill and art, and so preaching the Gospel does, and that more than human; and is constantly in its returning season to be attended to, notwithstanding the winds and clouds, and so the ministry of the word, notwithstanding all reproaches, persecutions, and afflictions; and as the same sort of seed, without mixture, and in plenty, is to be cast into the earth, so the same pure and unmixed Gospel of Christ is to be preached, and that without keeping back any thing that is profitable: and once more, as the sower, when he has cast his seed into the earth, waits long and with patience for its springing up and increase, so do the faithful dispensers of the Gospel: and what they sow or minister is of a spiritual nature; it comes from the Spirit of God, he is the dictator of it; he by his gifts qualifies men to preach it, and by his power makes it effectual to the souls of men; and through it conveys himself to them, as a spirit of regeneration and sanctification: the matter of the Gospel is spiritual; it contains spiritual doctrines, such as justification, pardon of sin, adoption, regeneration, c. and are what concern the souls and spirits of men, and their spiritual and eternal welfare:
is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? meaning temporal ones, what concern the flesh, the body, the outward man, and the support thereof. The argument is from the greater to the less, and much the same with that in Romans 15:27. The difference between carnal and spiritual things is very great the one has a vastly superior excellency to the other; and therefore if for carnal things men receive spiritual ones, they can be no losers thereby, but must be gainers; nor should it be thought any hardship or burden upon them, or any great and wonderful thing done by them, to support and maintain such who are so useful to their souls, and the spiritual welfare of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If we have sown unto you spiritual things - If we have been the means of imparting to you the gospel, and bestowing upon you its high hopes and privileges; see the note at Romans 15:27. The figure of “sowing,” to denote the preaching of the gospel, is not unfrequently employed in the Scriptures; see John 4:37, and the parable of the sower, Matthew 13:3 ff.
Is it a great thing ... - See the note at Romans 15:27. Is it to be regarded as unequal, unjust, or burdensome? Is it to be supposed that we are receiving that for which we have not rendered a valuable consideration? The sense is, “We impart blessings of more value than we receive. We receive a supply of our temporal needs. We impart to you, under the divine blessing, the gospel, with all its hopes and consolations. We make you acquainted with God; with the plan of salvation; with the hope of heaven. We instruct your children; we guide you in the path of comfort and peace; we raise you from the degradations of idolatry and of sin; and we open before you the hope of the resurrection of the just, and of all the bliss of heaven; and to do this, we give ourselves to toil and peril by land and by sea. And can it be made a matter of question whether all these high and exalted hopes are of as much value to dying man as the small amount which shall be needful to minister to the needs of those who are the means of imparting these blessings?” Paul says this, therefore, from the reasonableness of the case. The propriety of support might be further urged:
(1) Because without it the ministry would be comparatively useless. Ministers, like physicians, lawyers, and farmers, should be allowed to attend mainly to the great business of their lives, and to their appropriate work. No physician, no farmer, no mechanic, could accomplish much, if his attention was constantly turned off from his appropriate business to engage in something else. And how can the minister of the gospel, if his time is nearly all taken up in laboring to provide for the needs of his family?
(2) The great mass of ministers spend their early days, and many of them all their property, in preparing to preach the gospel to others. And as the mechanic who has spent his early years in learning a trade, and the physician and lawyer in preparing for their profession, receive support in that calling, why should not the minister of the gospel?
(3) People in other things cheerfully pay those who labor for them. They compensate the schoolmaster, the physician, the lawyer; the merchant, the mechanic; and they do it cheerfully, because they suppose they receive a valuable consideration for their money. But is it not so with regard to ministers of the gospel? Is not a man’s family as certainly benefited by the labors of a faithful clergyman and pastor, as by the skill of a physician or a lawyer, or by the service of the schoolmaster? Are not the affairs of the soul and of eternity as important to a man’s family as those of time and the welfare of the body? So the music-master and the dancing master are paid, and paid cheerfully and liberally; and yet can there be any comparison between the value of their services and those of the minister of the gospel?
(4) It might be added, that society is benefited in a “pecuniary” way by the service of a faithful minister to a far greater extent than the amount of compensation which he receives. One drunkard, reformed under his labors, may earn and save to his family and to society as much as the whole salary of the pastor. The promotion of order, peace, sobriety, industry, education, and regularity in business, and honesty in contracting and in paying debts, saves much more to the community at large than the cost of the support of the gospel. In regard to this, any man may make the comparison at his leisure, between those places where the ministry is established, and where temperance, industry, and sober habits prevail, and those places where there is no ministry, and where gambling, idleness, and dissipation abound. It is always a matter of “economy” to a people, in the end, to support schoolmasters and ministers as they ought to be supported.
Reap your carnal things - Partake of those things which relate to the present life; the support of the body, that is, food and raiment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 9:11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things — If we have been the means of bringing you into a state of salvation by the Divine doctrines which we have preached unto you, is it too much for us to expect a temporal support then we give ourselves up entirely to this work? Every man who preaches the Gospel has a right to his own support and that of his family while thus employed.
