Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 9:12 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“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.”
1 Corinthians 9:12
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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, {is it} 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 altar are partakers with the altar? {live: or, feed}
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
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