1 Corinthians 9:8
Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
BSB
ASV
Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
KJV
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES (384)
Paul indicates here that his position corresponds to the teaching of Scripture and that his refusal to accept any payment from the Corinthians was with good reason.
Does not God also say, in effect, the same thing? The ox that treadeth out the corn - This was the custom in Judea, and many eastern nations. In several of them it is retained still.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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…
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For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
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Romans 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
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I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
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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…
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Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
