ABOUT HOLY THINGS


1 Corinthians 9:9-15


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,
 IT IS 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.
 DO YE NOT KNOW 
THAT THEY 
WHICH MINISTER
ABOUT HOLY THINGS
 LIVE OF THE 
THINGS OF THE TEMPLE? 
AND 
THEY WHICH WAIT 
AT THE ALTER 
ARE PARTAKERS OF THE ALTER? 
EVEN SO 
HATH THE LORD ORDAINED
THAT THEY 
WHICH PREACH 
THE GOSPEL
 SHOULD LIVE OF THE GOSPEL.
 BUT I HAVE USED 
NONE OF THESE THINGS;
 NEITHER HAVE I WRITTEN 
THESE THINGS, 
THAT IT SHOULD BE SO
 DONE UNTO ME: 
FOR IT WERE BETTER
 FOR ME TO DIE, 
THAN THAT 
ANY MAN
SHOULD MAKE
MY GLORYING VOID. 

LOVE






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