1 Corinthians 9:3-7

Lexham English Bible

³ My defense to those who examine me is this: ⁴ Do we not have the right to eat and drink? ⁵ Do we not have the right to take along a sister as wife, like the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? ⁶ Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right to refrain from working^[a]? ⁷ Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who^[b] shepherds a flock and does not drink^[c] from the milk of the flock?