2 If I’m not an apostle to others, at least I am to you! You are the seal that shows I’m an apostle.
3 This is my defense against those who criticize me.
4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
5 Don’t we have the right to travel with a wife who believes like the rest of the apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who don’t have the right to not work for our living?
7 Who joins the army and pays their own way? Who plants a vineyard and doesn’t eat its fruit? Who shepherds a flock and doesn’t drink its milk?
8 I’m not saying these things just based on common sense, am I? Doesn’t the Law itself say these things?