Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Holman Bible
If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
International Standard Version
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
A Conservative Version
If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?
American Standard Version
If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
Amplified
If we have sown [the good seed of] spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
An Understandable Version
If we have planted spiritual seeds [i.e., the Gospel message] among you, is it too much to expect to reap a material harvest from you?
Anderson New Testament
If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?
Bible in Basic English
If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?
Common New Testament
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?
Daniel Mace New Testament
if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?
Darby Translation
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Godbey New Testament
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Goodspeed New Testament
If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
John Wesley New Testament
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?
Julia Smith Translation
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?
King James 2000
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your material things?
Lexham Expanded Bible
If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?
Modern King James verseion
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If we sow unto you spiritual things: is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?
Moffatt New Testament
If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods?
Montgomery New Testament
If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?
NET Bible
If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?
New Heart English Bible
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Noyes New Testament
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?
Sawyer New Testament
If we have sown for you spiritual things, is it too much if we reap your earthly things?
The Emphasized Bible
If, we, unto you, the things of the Spirit have sown, is it a great matter, if, we, of you, the things of the flesh shall reap?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we should reap your corporal things?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?
Webster
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Weymouth New Testament
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
Williams New Testament
If we have sown the spiritual seed for you, is it too great for us to reap a material support from you?
World English Bible
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Worrell New Testament
If we sowed for you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?
Worsley New Testament
If we then have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?
Themes
Evil » Instances of » In supporting himself
Ministers » Their people are bound, to » Support them
Reaping » Illustrative of » Ministers receiving temporal provision for spiritual labors
Topics
Interlinear
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Usage: 120
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 9:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Gives Up His Rights As An Apostle
10 or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope. 11 If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap? 12 if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
Cross References
Romans 15:27
for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.
Galatians 6:6
And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.
2 Kings 5:13
And his servants come nigh, and speak unto him, and say, 'My father, a great thing had the prophet spoken unto thee -- dost thou not do it? and surely, when he hath said unto thee, Wash, and be clean.'
Malachi 3:8-9
Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: 'In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!
Matthew 10:10
nor scrip for the way, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staff -- for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.
2 Corinthians 11:15
no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.