1. Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2. Although I may not be an apostle for others, certainly I am for you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3. My defense against those who would pass judgment on me is this.
4. Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
5. Do we not have the right to take along a Christian wife, as do the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or is it only myself and Barnabas who do not have the right not to work?
7. Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating its produce? Or who shepherds a flock without using some of the milk from the flock?
8. Am I saying this on human authority, or does not the law also speak of these things?
9. It is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is God concerned about oxen,