Is it a great matter? (μεγα; ). The copula εστιν has to be supplied. Note two conditions of first class with ε, both assumed to be…

If we have sown to you spiritual things. If we have been the means of imparting to you the gospel, and bestowing upon you its high hopes a…

If we have sown unto you spiritual things.—The two sentences in this verse contain a striking double antithesis, with “we…

(11–12a) The same principles of the worker’s sharing in the results of his crop are now applied to God’s spiritual work. Those who have sown the sp…

If we have sown unto you spiritual things. There was one objection remaining—for it might be argued that labors connected with this life s…

If we have sown to you spiritual things
The preachers of the Gospel are compared to sowers of seed; the seed they so…

It is not new for a minister to encounter unkindness in return for goodwill to a people, and for diligent and successful service among them. To the…