1. Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
2. If I am not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3. My answer to those that examine me is this,
4. Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
5. Do we not have authority to bring with us a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles and as the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
6. Do only Barnabas and I not have authority to forbear working?