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1 Corinthians 9:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? "

1 Corinthians 9:13

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11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

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1 Corinthians 9:1

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"If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord."

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1 Corinthians 9:4

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