1 Corinthians 9:9-11

The Voice

⁹ In Moses’ law, it is written: “Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out your grain.”^[a] Is God’s concern here limited to oxen, ¹⁰ or does He speak here ultimately for our benefit? These things were written for us, so as the plowman plows and the worker gathers, they can labor with the hopeful expectation that they, too, will share in the good harvest. ¹¹ The same principle applies here: Is it too much to ask that we would be compensated materially for planting life- and world-changing spiritual realities?