1 Corinthians 9:5-9

English Standard Version

^5 (A)Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,^[a] as do the other apostles and ^(B)the brothers of the Lord and ^(C)Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? ^7 (D)Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? ^(E)Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

⁸ Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? ⁹ For it is written in the Law of Moses, ^(F)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?