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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?

1 Corinthians 9:7 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીકરિંથીઓને પહેલો પત્ર ૯:૭
એવો કયો સિપાઈ છે કે જે પોતાના ખર્ચથી લડાઈમાં જાય છે? દ્રાક્ષાવાડી રોપીને તેનું ફળ કોણ ખાતો નથી? અથવા કોણ જાનવર પાળીને તેના દૂધનો ઉપભોગ કરતો નથી?
हिन्दी1 कुरिन्थियों ९:७
कौन कभी अपनी गिरह से खाकर सिपाही का काम करता है? कौन दाख की बारी लगाकर उसका फल नहीं खाता? कौन भेड़ों की रखवाली करके उनका दूध नहीं पीता?

In context

5Have 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?

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

7What 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?

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

9For 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,

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