1 Corintios 9:14

14 Del mismo modo, el Señor ordenó que los que predican la Buena Noticia sean sostenidos por los que reciben el beneficio del mensaje.

1 Corintios 9:14 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 9:14

Even so hath the Lord ordained
That is, the Lord Jesus Christ, in ( Matthew 10:10 ) ( Luke 10:7 Luke 10:8 ) it is an order and appointment of his that his ministering servants, who labour in preaching his Gospel, should be sufficiently taken care of, as to a comfortable livelihood; he has not indeed fixed it in the same way as the priests and Levites had theirs under the law; but as the one was just and right, that they should be maintained out of the things belonging to the temple and altar, and live on them, so it is his will and pleasure,

that they which preach the Gospel;
that continue to do so, that labour, and not loiter in the word and doctrine, who do the work of the ministry fully and faithfully, and not bear the name only of Gospel preachers: should live of the Gospel; not the Gospel itself, which is spiritual, and not corporeal food; but the sense is, that in consideration and because of their preaching the Gospel, they should be supplied with the proper necessaries of life: the learned Mr. Mede has proved, by various instances, that the word (euaggelion) , here rendered "Gospel", and which signifies good news and glad tidings, is in other writers used for a reward, given to such that bring good tidings; and has rightly observed, that the Hebrew word (hrvb) , which signifies the same, is used in a like sense in ( 2 Samuel 4:10 ) and accordingly the sense here will be, that it is the ordination of Christ, that such who faithfully bring the news and glad tidings of salvation to sinners, should, as a reward for such good news, be provided for with a comfortable maintenance, on which they should live.

1 Corintios 9:14 In-Context

12 Si ustedes sostienen a otros que les predican, ¿no deberíamos tener nosotros aún mayor derecho a que nos sostengan? Pero nunca nos hemos valido de ese derecho. Preferiríamos soportar cualquier cosa antes que ser un obstáculo a la Buena Noticia acerca de Cristo.

13 ¿No se dan cuenta de que los que trabajan en el templo obtienen sus alimentos de las ofrendas que se llevan al templo? Y los que sirven en el altar reciben una porción de lo que se ofrece como sacrificio.

14 Del mismo modo, el Señor ordenó que los que predican la Buena Noticia sean sostenidos por los que reciben el beneficio del mensaje.

15 Sin embargo, yo jamás me he valido de ninguno de esos derechos. Y no escribo esto para sugerir que es mi deseo comenzar a hacerlo ahora. De hecho, preferiría morir antes que perder mi derecho a jactarme de predicar sin cobrar.

16 Sin embargo, predicar la Buena Noticia no es algo de lo que pueda jactarme. Estoy obligado por Dios a hacerlo. ¡Qué terrible sería para mí si no predicara la Buena Noticia!