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1 Corinthians 9:8
1 Corinthians 9:8 is verse 8 of 1 Corinthians chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
King James Version
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
World English Bible
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
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1 Corinthians 9:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
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?
8 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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 7:40In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
Romans 6:19I 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.
1 Thessalonians 2:13And 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:34Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Romans 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.