Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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Bible References

Clean

Amos 4:6
I gave you absolutely nothing to eat
in all your cities,
a shortage of food in all your communities,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

But

Proverbs 13:23
The uncultivated field of the poor yields abundant food,
but without justice, it is swept away.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?

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