3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
5 Do we not have the right to take along a sister as wife, like the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
6 Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right to refrain from working?
7 Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?
8 I am not saying these things according to a human perspective. Or does the law not also say these things?
9 For in the law of Moses it is written, “You must not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.” It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it?