3. Some people want to judge me. So this is the answer I give them:
4. We have the right to eat and drink, don’t we?
5. We have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel, don’t we? The other apostles and 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 one takes care of a flock of sheep without drinking some of the milk himself.
8. These aren’t just my own thoughts. God’s law says the same thing.