^7 (A)And remain in the same house, ^(B)eating and drinking such things as they give, for ^(C)the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.

^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? ⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, ^(H)“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about? ¹⁰ Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that ^(I)he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. ^11 (J)If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? ¹² If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more?

^(K)Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things ^(L)lest we hinder the gospel of Christ. ^13 (M)Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the ^(N)temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? ¹⁴ Even so ^(O)the Lord has commanded ^(P)that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

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.”