1. Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?
2. If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.
3. My answer to them that do examine me is this,
4. Have we not the right to eat and to drink?
5. Have we not the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we the right to forbear working?
7. Who goes to warfare any time at his own expense? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?