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


In Context

5 Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas ?

6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living?

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

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

9 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?

10 Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

1st 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

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?