My defense to those who examine me is this: [a](A)Do we not have a right to eat and drink? [b](B)Do we not have a right to take along a [c]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the (C)brothers of the Lord and (D)Cephas? Or do only [d](E)Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working? Who at any time serves (F)as a soldier at his own expense? Who (G)plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not [e]use the milk of the flock?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:4 Lit It is not that we have no right to eat and drink, is it?
  2. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit It is not that we have no right to take along...Cephas, is it?
  3. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Lit sister, as wife
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:6 Lit I and Barnabas
  5. 1 Corinthians 9:7 Lit eat of