1 Corinthians 9:4-14

Rotherham(i) 4 Have we not a right to eat and drink? 5 Have we not a right to take round, a sister wife,––as even the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or have, only I and Barnabas, not a right to forbear working? 7 Who serveth as a soldier, at his own charges, at any time? Who planteth a vineyard,––and, the fruit thereof, doth not eat? [Or] who shepherdeth a flock,––and, of the milk of the flock, doth not eat? 8 Is it, after the manner of men, that these things I am saying? Or doth not, even the law, the same things, say? 9 For, in the law of Moses, it is written––Thou shalt not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the corn:––Is it, for the oxen, God is caring? 10 Or, for our sakes altogether, is he saying it? For our sakes, it was written; because, he that ploweth, ought, to plow, in hope,––and, he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking. 11 If, we, unto you, the things of the Spirit have sown, is it a great matter, if, we, of you, the things of the flesh shall reap? 12 If, others, of this right, over you, are partaking, [should] not rather, we? nevertheless, we used not this right; but, all [such] things, do we conceal,––lest we should cause any hindrance unto the glad message of the Christ. 13 Know ye not that, they who labour in the holy rites, do eat the provisions out of the holy place? They who at the altar wait, do, with the altar, share? 14 Thus, also, hath the Lord, appointed––that, they who the glad message tell, should, of the glad–message, live.