3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
5 Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
6 Or do Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?
7 Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?
8 Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?