LITV(i)
6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority to quit work?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I speak these things according to man, or does not the Law say these things also?
9 For it has been written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox treading out grain." Deut. 25:4 Is it that it matters to God as to oxen?
10 Or does He say it altogether because of us? It is written because of us, so that the one plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one threshing in hope to partake of hope.
11 If we have sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we shall reap of your fleshly things?
12 If others have a share of the authority over you, should not rather we? But we did not use this authority, but we endured all things, so that we might not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
13 Do you not know that those who have labored eat of the holy things of the temple? Those attending on the altar partake with the altar.
14 So also the Lord ordained those announcing the gospel to live from the gospel.