What is the biblical basis for requiring that a pastor/preacher/teacher/etc be paid for their ministry?
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Moses recorded that the priests and levites were to receive the offerings given to the Lord (Numbers 18:8ff). This can be seen as establishing this practice -- to have those who do the work of God benefit from the offerings given to God's people.
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One scripture used to support this view is 1 Timothy 5:17-18 which states
Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching. For the scripture says,
“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,”
and,
“The worker deserves his pay.”
Pastors certainly provide leadership to a church and work hard in their duties speaking and teaching.
In this scripture, the author of Timothy is claiming that the prohibition on muzzling oxen is because an ox should receive benefits for his hard work. Similarly, a pastor should receive a benefit for his hard work.
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In 1 Cor. 9:14, the apostle Paul wrote,
Likewise, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Gospel should make their living from the Gospel.
οὕτως καὶ ὁ κύριος διέταξεν τοῖς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον καταγγέλλουσιν ἐκ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου ζῆν (TR, 1550)
In his commentary on 1 Cor. 9:4, John Gill wrote,
"Even so hath the Lord ordained"
That is, the Lord Jesus Christ (in Matt. 10:10; Luke 10:7-8), 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:
I bolded what is of utmost importance. I preach the Gospel, but I do not do so "fully." It is not my sole occupation. I am not fully committed to doing so. But those who are, whose sole purpose is to preach the Gospel, they should be fully supported. Else, how shall they devote themselves to fully laboring in the word?
The apostle even confessed that he had the authority to forbear working (1 Cor. 9:6). Would Christianity have grown and thrived the way it did without the apostle Paul devoting his entire self to preaching the Gospel?
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