2 If others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do, because you are proof that I am an apostle in the Lord.
3 This is the answer I give people who want to judge me:
4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
5 Do we not have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter?
6 Are Barnabas and I the only ones who must work to earn our living?
7 No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary. No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes. No person takes care of a flock without drinking some of the milk.
8 I do not say this by human authority; God’s law also says the same thing.