Living_Oracles(i)
4 Have we not liberty to eat, and to drink?
5 Have we not liberty to lead about a sister wife, as the other Apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or, have I, only, and Barnabas, not liberty to forbear working?
7 Who, at any time, serves in the wars, on his own charges? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock, and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8 Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law also say these things?
9 For, in the law of Moses it is written, "You shall not muzzle the ox treading out the corn." Does God take care of the oxen?
10 Or, does he command this chiefly for our sakes? For our sakes, certainly, it is written: because, he who plows, ought to plough in hope; and he who threshes in hope, ought to partake of his own hope.
11 If we have sown for you spiritual things, is it a great matter, if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If others partake of this authority over you, ought not we, rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power; but we bear all things, that we may not give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
13 Do you not know that they who perform sacred offices, eat from the temple? Do not they who wait at the altar share with the altar?
14 So also, the Lord has appointed them who announce the gospel, to live by the gospel.