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


In Context

5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

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

9 For it is written in the law of Moses, |You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.| Is it for the oxen that God cares,

10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

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 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 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?