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?
8 Am I saying these things only on the basis of common sense, or does the law not say this as well?