ABOUT HOLY THINGS
1 Corinthians 9:9-15
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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