1. Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2. If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3. My defence to those who examine me is this:
4. Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
5. have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
7. Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8. Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?