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1 Corinthians 9:3-7 New Living Translation (NLT)

3. This is my answer to those who question my authority.

4. Don’t we have the right to live in your homes and share your meals?

5. Don’t we have the right to bring a believing wife with us as the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers do, and as Peter does?

6. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves?

7. What soldier has to pay his own expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to drink some of the milk?

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