1 Corinthians 9:3-7

International Standard Version

³ This is my defense to those who would examine me: ⁴ We have the right to earn our food,^[a] don’t we? ⁵ We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas,^[b] don’t we? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living? ⁷ Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?