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Who at any time serves (A)as a soldier at his own expense? Who (B)plants a vineyard and does not [a]consume the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not [b]consume the milk of the flock?

Am I speaking these things (C)according to [c]human judgment? Or does not the Law also say these things? For it is written in the Law of Moses, “(D)You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” Is God merely concerned about (E)oxen?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Lit man

Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

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