Versículo del Día — Sábado, 3 de octubre de 2026
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
1 Corinthians 9:9-10. El Versículo del Día, Sábado, 3 de octubre de 2026, con una breve reflexión.
Porque en la ley de Moisés está escrito: No pondrás bozal al buey que trilla. ¿Tiene Dios cuidado de los bueyes? ¿O dícelo enteramente por nosotros? Pues por nosotros está escrito; porque con esperanza ha de arar el que ara; y el que trilla, con esperanza de recibir el fruto.
1 Corinthians 9:9-10
Qué significa este versículo
Paul points to an old farming law that let a working ox eat the grain it was threshing, and says its deeper lesson is about people: whoever does the work has a right to share in what the work produces.
These two verses come from a letter Paul wrote to a young church in the Greek city of Corinth. In this stretch of the letter he is making a case that people who give their lives to preaching and teaching have a fair claim to be supported by the communities they serve. He has already pointed to ordinary life to make the point. A soldier does not pay his own wages. A farmer eats from the vineyard he tends. A shepherd drinks milk from the flock he keeps.
Then he reaches for the Law of Moses and quotes a single line: do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. This needs a little explaining for a modern reader. In ancient farming, one way to separate the grain from the dry stalks was to make an ox walk over the cut harvest, round and round, so its hooves knocked the kernels loose. To muzzle the animal would stop it from snatching a mouthful as it worked. The law told the farmer to leave the ox free to eat. The animal doing the labor gets to share in it.
Right after the quote, Paul asks a question that can catch a reader off guard: is it really oxen that God is concerned about? In the original Greek, the question is built to expect the answer no. He is not denying that God cares for animals. He is using a common way of reasoning that starts from a small case and reaches for the bigger one behind it. If a rule about a farm animal carries a principle worth writing down, that principle speaks all the more to people.
That is what he means when he says the law was written for our sake. He reads the old command as pointing past the ox to a truth about human work. The one who plows the field does it expecting to eat from the harvest. The one who threshes the grain works in the hope of sharing what comes of it. The expectation of a share is part of what makes honest labor make sense.
So the passage is Paul drawing a wide principle out of a small rule. Those who put in the work have a right to live from it. He is about to apply that to himself and to others who preach, and the point he lands on here is the older and simpler one that stands underneath: a worker should be able to eat from the work.
