¹⁰ no bag for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his keep.^(A)

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)

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.

⁸ “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you.^{(B) 9} Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God^(C) has come near to you.’ ¹⁰ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you.^(D) Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’^{(E) 12} I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom^(F) than for that town.^(G)

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

⁷ Do not be deceived:^(B) God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.^(C)

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)

¹¹ John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”^(A)

⁷ Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift^(A) to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

¹³ When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas,^(A) and my scrolls, especially the parchments.

⁴⁰ Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.