1 Corinthians 9:3-10

3My defence to those who examine me is this:

4Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

5have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

7Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

8Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

9For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is 1God occupied about the oxen,

10or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].