⁷Who at any time serves ^aas a soldier at his own expense? Who ^bplants a vineyard and does not ¹consume the fruit of it? Or who shepherds a flock and does not ²consume the milk of the flock?

⁸Am I speaking these things ^aaccording to ¹human judgment? Or does not the Law also say these things?

⁹For it is written in the Law of Moses, “^aYou shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.” Is God merely concerned about ^boxen?

¹⁰Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, ^afor our sake it was written, because ^bthe plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

¹¹^aIf we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

¹²If others share this authority over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we ^adid not use this authority, but we endure all things ^bso that we will cause no hindrance to the ^cgospel of Christ.

¹³^aDo you not know that those who ^bperform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share ¹from the altar?

¹⁴So also ^athe Lord directed those who proclaim the ^bgospel to ^cget their living from the gospel.

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Footnotes

1Lit I and Barnabas
1Lit eat of
2Lit eat of
1Lit man
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Cross references

a Acts 4:36
a 2 Cor 10:4; 1 Tim 1:18; 2 Tim 2:3f
b Deut 20:6; Prov 27:18; 1 Cor 3:6, 8
a Rom 3:5
a Deut 25:4; 1 Tim 5:18
b Deut 22:1–4; Prov 12:10
a Rom 4:23f
b 2 Tim 2:6
a Rom 15:27; 1 Cor 9:14
a Acts 18:3; 20:33; 1 Cor 9:15, 18
b 2 Cor 6:3; 11:12
c 1 Cor 4:15; 9:14, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12
a Rom 6:16
b Lev 6:16, 26; 7:6, 31ff; Num 5:9f; 18:8–20, 31; Deut 18:1
a Matt 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Tim 5:18
b 1 Cor 4:15; 9:12, 16, 18, 23; 2 Cor 2:12
c Luke 10:8; 1 Cor 9:4