^{12 Ref} If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

^{13 Ref} Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

^{14 Ref} Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Gospel should live from the Gospel.

^{15 Ref} But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.