1 Corinthians 9:9

Modern English Version

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox while it treads out the grain.” Is God concerned about oxen?

Cross References

Psalm 104:27

These all wait upon You, that You may give them their food in due season.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man tends to the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Isaiah 28:28

Grain for bread is crushed; so he does not continue to thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

Jonah 4:11

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

Romans 4:23

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

Deuteronomy 25:4

You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor the foreigner that is within your gates, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

1 Timothy 5:18

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his reward.”