^{5 Ref} Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

^{6 Ref} Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?

^{7 Ref} Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

^{8 Ref} Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

^{9 Ref} For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?

^{10 Ref} Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

^{11 Ref} If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

^{12 Ref} If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

^{13 Ref} Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

^{14 Ref} Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

^{15 Ref} But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

^{16 Ref} For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

^{17 Ref} But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.