1 Corinthians 9:4-14

Murdock(i) 4 Have we not authority, to eat and to drink? 5 Or have we not authority to carry about with us a sister as a wife; just as the other legates, and the brothers of our Lord, and as Cephas? 6 Or I only, and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear labor? 7 Who, that serveth in war, doth so at his own expense? Or who, that planteth a vineyard, eateth not of its fruits? Or who, that tendeth sheep, eateth not of the milk of his flocks? 8 Is it as a man, I say these things? Behold, the law also saith them. 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that thresheth. Hath God regard for oxen? 10 But manifest it is, for whose sake he said it. And indeed, for our sakes it was written: because the plougher ought to plough in hope, and the thresher in hope of fruit. 11 If we have sowed among you the things of the Spirit, is it a great matter, if we reap from you the things of the body? 12 And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah. 13 Know ye not, that they who serve in a temple, are fed from the temple? And they who serve at the altar, participate with the altar? 14 Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel.