The Principle of Ministerial Support

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Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

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Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

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For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

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Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.

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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?

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If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

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Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

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In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

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