⁷ Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages.^(A) Do not move around from house to house.

¹⁷ The elders^(A) who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor,^(B) especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. ¹⁸ For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,”^[a](C) and “The worker deserves his wages.”^[b](D)

¹⁰ no bag for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his keep.^{(A) 11} Whatever town or village you enter, search there for some worthy person and stay at their house until you leave.

⁵ Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,^[a](A) even though they are strangers to you.^{(B) 6} They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way^(C) in a manner that honors^(D) God. ⁷ It was for the sake of the Name^(E) that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.^{(F) 8} We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.

⁶ The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.^(A)

⁶ Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.^(A)

⁴ Don’t we have the right to food and drink?^{(A) 5} Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife^(B) along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers^(C) and Cephas^[a]?^{(D) 6} Or is it only I and Barnabas^(E) who lack the right to not work for a living?

⁷ Who serves as a soldier^(F) at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard^(G) and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? ⁸ Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? ⁹ For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”^[b](H) Is it about oxen that God is concerned?^{(I) 10} Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us,^(J) because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.^{(K) 11} If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?^{(L) 12} If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

But we did not use this right.^(M) On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder^(N) the gospel of Christ.

¹³ Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?^{(O) 14} In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.^(P)

¹⁵ But I have not used any of these rights.^(Q) And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast.^(R)

¹⁸ Instead, you are to eat^(A) them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose^(B)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice^(C) before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to. ¹⁹ Be careful not to neglect the Levites^(D) as long as you live in your land.^(E)

⁴ Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town.