You shall give a tithe to tithe all the increase of your seed that the field yields year by year.

And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God all your days.

nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.

And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.

Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

If others are partakers of this authority over you, should we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but endure all things so that we might not hinder the gospel of Christ.

Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Let him being taught the Word share in all good things with him who teaches.

Let the elders who lead well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the Word and doctrine.

For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain, and, The laborer is worthy of his wages.