1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 This is my defense to those who examine me.
4 Do we not have the right to financial support?
5 Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6 Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?
7 Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?