2. Others may not accept me as an apostle, but surely you accept me. You are proof that I am an apostle in the Lord.
3. Some people want to judge me. So this is the answer I give them:
4. Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
5. Do we not have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel? The other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Peter all do this.
6. And are Barnabas and I the only ones who must work to earn our living?
7. No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary. No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes himself. No person takes care of a flock of sheep without drinking some of the milk himself.
8. This is not only what men think. God’s law says the same thing.