4. Don’t we have the right to food and drink?
5. Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6. Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?
7. Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?
8. Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
9. For it is written in the Law of Moses: ‘Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.’ Is it about oxen that God is concerned?