1 I am free. I am an apostle. I have seen the Lord Jesus and have led you to have faith in him.
2 Others may think that I am not an apostle, but you are proof that I am an apostle to you.
3 When people question me, I tell them
4 that Barnabas and I have the right to our food and drink.
5 We each have the right to marry one of the Lord's followers and to take her along with us, just as the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do.
6 Are we the only ones who have to support ourselves by working at another job?
7 Do soldiers pay their own salaries? Don't people who raise grapes eat some of what they grow? Don't shepherds get milk from their own goats?