1 Corinthians 9:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸I’m not saying these things just based on common sense, am I? Doesn’t the Law itself say these things? ⁹In Moses’ Law it’s written: You will not muzzle the ox when it is threshing.^[a] Is God worried about oxen, ¹⁰or did he say this entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake because the one who plows and the one who threshes should each do so with the hope of sharing the produce.

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1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut 25:4

1 Corinthians 9:8-10

New International Version

⁸Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? ⁹For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”^[a]^(A) Is it about oxen that God is concerned?^(B) ¹⁰Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us,^(C) because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.^(D)