3. Some people want to judge me. So this is the answer I give them:
4. We have the right to eat and drink, don’t we?
5. We have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel, don’t we? The other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter all do this.
6. And are Barnabas and I the only ones who must work to earn our living?
7. No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary. No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes himself. No one takes care of a flock of sheep without drinking some of the milk himself.
8. These aren’t just my own thoughts. God’s law says the same thing.
9. Yes, it is written in the Law of Moses: “When a work animal is being used to separate grain, don’t keep it from eating the grain.” When God said this, was he thinking only about work animals? No.
10. He was really talking about us. Yes, that was written for us. The one who plows and the one who separates the grain should both expect to get some of the grain for their work.