1. AM not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?
2. And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3. My defence with them that do examine me is this.
4. Have not we power to eat and to drink?
5. Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?
7. Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say these things?
9. For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10. Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope; and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.
11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?