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1 Corinthians 9:8

The law

6 Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

10 Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
KJV
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
WEB
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
ASV
Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
DARBY
Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?
BLB
Do I not speak these things according to man, or does the law not also say these things?
ÅB
Taler jeg dette bare på menneskelig vis, eller sier ikke også loven dette?
OTB
Jeg taler vel ikke dette ut fra menneskelig vurdering? Sier ikke også loven det samme?
B1930
Taler jeg dette bare på menneskelig vis, eller sier ikke også loven dette?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Romans 6:19

    I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

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  • Isaiah 8:20

    To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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  • 1 Corinthians 14:34

    Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

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  • Romans 3:31

    Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:40

    In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 2:13

    And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 4:8

    Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

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