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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? 10 Or is He surely speaking for our sake? Indeed it was written for our sake— because[c] the one plowing ought to plow on the basis of hope, and the one threshing to thresh on the basis of hope that he might partake.

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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.
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:10 Or, [meaning] that.

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