⁹ not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

⁴ Have we no right to eat and to drink?

⁵ Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁶ Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

⁷ What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

⁸ Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

¹⁰ or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

¹¹ If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

¹² 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 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 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Gospel should live from the Gospel.

⁷ For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

⁶ nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

⁶ But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} an example, that you should follow his steps,

¹⁰ Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.