1 Corinthians 9:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

⁷ No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary. No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes himself. No one takes care of a flock of sheep without drinking some of the milk himself.

⁸ These aren’t just my own thoughts. God’s law says the same thing. ⁹ Yes, it is written in the Law of Moses: “When a work animal is being used to separate grain, don’t keep it from eating the grain.”^[a] When God said this, was he thinking only about work animals? No.