8Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?


In Context

5 have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

7 Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

8 Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

9 For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

10 or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.

1 Corinthians 9:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Doesn't the Law say the same thing?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say these things?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Say I these things as a man? or said not the law the same also?