1 Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 My defence to those who examine me is this:
4 Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
5 have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?