1 Corinthians 9:14

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.

Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is prepared in the pan and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.

When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.’ ”

“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.

They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for our livestock.”

The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”

A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Then Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.