Deuteronomy 25:4
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain .
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain ; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
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,
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.