1 Corinthians 9:11
Good News Translation
We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

New Revised Standard Version
If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits?

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
If we have sown spiritual seed for you, is it a great thing that we reap a material harvest from you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

sown.

Malachi 3:8,9 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. . . .

Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Romans 15:27 For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them.

Galatians 6:6 And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

a great.

2 Kings 5:13 His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean?

2 Corinthians 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.

Context
The Rights of an Apostle
10Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit. 11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things? 12If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.…
Cross References
Romans 15:27
For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them.

1 Corinthians 9:14
So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.

Galatians 6:6
And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.

1 Corinthians 9:10
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