Bible Cross References
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Matthew 10:10
do not carry a beggar's bag for the trip or an extra shirt or shoes or a walking stick. Workers should be given what they need.
1 Corinthians 9:4-14
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Don't I have the right to be given food and drink for my work?
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Don't I have the right to follow the example of the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter, by taking a Christian wife with me on my trips?
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Or are Barnabas and I the only ones who have to work for our living?
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What soldiers ever have to pay their own expenses in the army? What farmers do not eat the grapes from their own vineyard? What shepherds do not use the milk from their own sheep?
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I don't have to limit myself to these everyday examples, because the Law says the same thing.
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We read in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain." Now, is God concerned about oxen?
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Didn't he really mean us when he said that? Of course that was written for us. Anyone who plows and anyone who reaps should do their work in the hope of getting a share of the crop.
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We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
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If others have the right to expect this from you, don't we have an even greater right? But we haven't made use of this right. Instead, we have endured everything in order not to put any obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.
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Surely you know that the men who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who offer the sacrifices on the altar get a share of the sacrifices.
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In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who preach the gospel should get their living from it.
Galatians 6:6
If you are being taught the Christian message, you should share all the good things you have with your teacher.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,
to make
2 Thessalonians 3:7
You yourselves know very well that you should do just what we did. We were not lazy when we were with you.
John 13:15
I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.
1 Peter 2:21
It was to this that God called you, for Christ himself suffered for you and left you an example, so that you would follow in his steps.