"Or saith he {it} altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, {this} is written: that he that ploweth should plow …" — 1 Corinthians 9:10

1 Corinthians 9:10 · KJV

“Or saith he {it} altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, {this} is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.”

— 1 Corinthians 9:10

Verse 9

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Verse 11

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, {is it} a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

1 Corinthians 9 — Context

Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Or saith he {it} altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, {this} is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, {is it} a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

If others be partakers of {this} power over you, {are} not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Cross References

2 Timothy 2:6

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. {that...: or, labouring first, must be partaker of the fruits}

Romans 15:4

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Romans 4:23-24

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, {ye are} God's building. {husbandry: or, tillage}

John 4:35-38

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and {then} cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

2 Corinthians 4:15

For all things {are} for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Luke 17:7-8

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

Matthew 24:22

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.