Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much increase is by the strength of the ox.
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- 1 Corinthians 9:9–11 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, or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking. If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?
- Proverbs 13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.