2. Even if others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do! Because of your life in union with the Lord you yourselves are proof of the fact that I am an apostle.
3. When people criticize me, this is how I defend myself:
4. Haven't I the right to be given food and drink for my work?
5. Haven't I the right to follow the example of the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter, by taking a Christian wife with me on my travels?
6. Or are Barnabas and I the only ones who have to work for our living?