WPNT(i)
4 Do we have no right to eat and drink?
5 Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, just as the rest of the apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to forego working?
7 Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
8 I am not saying these things as a mere man, am I? Does not the Law also say the same?
9 For it stands written in the Law of Moses: “You shall not muzzle an ox that is threshing.” Is it really about the oxen that God is concerned,
10 or does He surely say it for our sakes? Yes, it was written for us, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
11 Since we planted spiritual things in you, is it a big deal if we reap material things from you?
12 If others have a share in this right from you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but we put up with everything so as not to cause any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
13 Don’t you know that those who minister the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar have a share in the altar?
14 So also the Lord has instructed those who proclaim the Gospel to live from the Gospel.