Deuteronomy 25:4
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4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.(A)
1 Timothy 5:17-18
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17 The elders(A) who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor,(B) especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. 18 For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,”[a](C) and “The worker deserves his wages.”[b](D)
Footnotes
- 1 Timothy 5:18 Deut. 25:4
- 1 Timothy 5:18 Luke 10:7
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
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9 For 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) 10 Surely 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)
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut. 25:4
Proverbs 12:10
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10 The righteous care for the needs of their animals,(A)
but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
Hosea 10:11
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11 Ephraim is a trained heifer
that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke(A)
on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
Judah must plow,
and Jacob must break up the ground.
Isaiah 28:27
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