4 1aDo we not have a right to eat and drink?

5 1aDo we not have a right to take along a 2believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the bbrothers of the Lord and cCephas?

6 Or do only 1aBarnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?

7 Who at any time serves aas a soldier at his own expense? Who bplants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not 1use the milk of the flock?

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

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

10 Or 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?