If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
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Gill's Exposition
If others are partakers of this power over you,.... Meaning not any tyrannical power and jurisdiction over them, with respect either to faith or practice; but the right of a maintenance, which either…
Barnes' Notes
If we have sown unto you spiritual things - If we have been the means of imparting to you the gospel, and bestowing upon you its high hopes and privileges; see the note at Rom 15:27. The figure of…
Adam Clarke
If we have sown unto you spiritual things - If we have been the means of bringing you into a state of salvation by the Divine doctrines which we have preached unto you, is it too much for us to expect…
Having asserted his apostolical authority, he proceeds to claim the rights belonging to his office, especially that of being maintained by it.
I. These he states, Co1 9:3-6. "My answer to those that…
Cambridge Bible
If we have sown unto you spiritual things St Paul's third argument is drawn from the principles of natural gratitude. If we have conferred on you such inestimable benefits, it is surely no very…
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