1 Corinthians 9:11

WEB

¹¹If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

KJV

¹¹If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

BSB

¹¹If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?

FBV

¹¹If we sowed what is spiritual with you, does it really matter if we reap some material benefit?

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Extra References

Romans 15:27

²⁷Yes, 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 material things.

Galatians 6:6

⁶But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Matthew 10:10

¹⁰Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

2 Corinthians 11:15

¹⁵It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹³His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

Malachi 3:8-9

⁸Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. ⁹You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.