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Don’t we have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other emissaries and the Lord’s brothers and Kefa? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to not work? What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink its milk?

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

Who serves as a soldier(E) at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard(F) and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter