1. Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2. If I am not an apostle to others, yet indeed I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3. This is my answer to those who examine me.
4. Do we have no right to eat and to drink?
5. Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife as do other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?