¹⁰ nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; ^(A)for a worker is worthy of his food.

^4 (A)Do we have no ^[a]right to eat and drink? ⁵ Do we have no right to take along ^[b]a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, ^(B)the brothers of the Lord, and ^(C)Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I ^(D)who have no right to refrain from working? ⁷ Who ever ^(E)goes to war at his own expense? Who ^(F)plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who ^(G)tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

⁸ Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also?

¹⁸ For the Scripture says, ^(A)“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, ^(B)“The laborer is worthy of his wages.”