1 Corinthians 9:3-8 Modern English Version (MEV)

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?

7. Who goes to war at any time at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, but does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, but does not drink of the flock’s milk?

8. Do I say these things as a man? Or does the law not say the same thing also?

1 Corinthians 9