1 Corinthians 9:3-10

3My defense to those who examine me is this.

4Don’t we have the right to food and drink?

5Don’t we have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other emissaries and the Lord’s brothers and Kefa?

6Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to not work?

7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink its milk?

8I don’t say these things merely as a man, do I? Doesn’t Torah also say these things?

9For it is written in the Torah of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.” Is it the oxen that concern God,

10or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the one plowing ought to plow in hope and the one threshing in hope of a share in the crop.