1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?
2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.
3 My answer to them that do examine me is this,
4 Have we not the right to eat and to drink?
5 Have we not the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?