1. Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord?
2. if to others I am not an apostle--yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3. My defence to those who examine me in this;
4. have we not authority to eat and to drink?
5. have we not authority a sister--a wife--to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6. or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority--not to work?
7. who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?
8. According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?