1 Corinthians 9:5-7

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⁵ Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife,^[a] as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?^{(A) 6} Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?^{(B) 7} Who at any time pays the expenses for doing military service? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not get any of its milk?^(C)