1 Corinthians 9:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when 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?

1 Corinthians 9:9 Cross References

Psalm 104:27

These all look to thee, to give them their food in due season.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Isaiah 28:28

Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.

Jonah 4:11

And should not I pity 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 much cattle?”

Romans 4:23

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

Deuteronomy 25:4

“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.

1 Timothy 5:18

for the scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”