1 Corinthians 9:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For in the Law of Moses it is written, You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the corn. Is it [only] for oxen that God cares? [Deut. 25:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,

Common English Bible

⁹ In Moses’ Law it’s written: “You will not muzzle the ox when it is threshing”. Is God worried about oxen,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses: "You shall not bind the mouth of an ox, while it is treading out the grain." Is God here concerned with the oxen?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ 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?

1 Corinthians 9:9 Cross References

Psalm 104:27

These all look to you to give them their food in due season;

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Isaiah 28:28

Grain is crushed for bread, but one does not thresh it forever; one drives the cart wheel and horses over it but does not pulverize it.

Jonah 4:11

And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”

Romans 4:23

Now the words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not for his sake alone

Deuteronomy 25:4

“You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Deuteronomy 5:14

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.

1 Timothy 5:18

for the scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain” and “The laborer deserves to be paid.”