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Workers Always Partake of The Fruit of Their Labors

Who ever serves-as-a-soldier with his own rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

Does Not The Law Say This Very Thing?

I am not speaking these things according to [mere] human thinking[a], am I ? Or does not the Law also say these things? For in the Law of Moses it has been written [in Deut 25:4], “You shall not muzzle a threshing ox”. God is not concerned about the oxen[b], is He?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:8 Or, according to mankind.
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:9 No, God is not concerned whether oxen get fed before, during, or after threshing. This was an object-lesson.

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