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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Greek a sister as wife

· ho This houtos is eimi my emos defense apologia to those ho who sit in judgment on anakrinō me egō. Do we not ou have echō the right exousia to eat esthiō and kai drink pinō? Do we not ou have echō the right exousia to the company of periagō a believing adelphē wife gynē, as hōs also kai the ho other loipos apostles apostolos, · kai the ho Lord’ s kyrios brothers adelphos, · ho and kai Cephas Kēphas do? Or ē is it only monos I egō and kai Barnabas Barnabas who have echō no ou right exousia to refrain from working ergazomai? Who tis ever pote serves in the army at his own idios expense opsōnion? Who tis plants phyteuō a vineyard ampelōn and kai does esthiō not ou eat esthiō · ho its autos fruit karpos? Or ē who tis tends poimainō a flock poimnē and kai does esthiō not ou drink esthiō of ek · ho its poimnē milk gala? · ho

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