^{1 2} If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. ^{3 4 5 6} Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right to not work at a trade? ^{8 7} Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink milk from it? ^{10 11 9} For it is written in the law of Moses, "Do not put a muzzle on an ox when it is threshing the grain." Is it really the oxen that God cares about? ^{13 14 12} If others exercised this right from you, do we not have even more? But we did not claim this right. Instead we endured everything rather than be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ. ^{16 15} But I have not claimed any of these rights. And I do not write this so something might be done for me. It would be better for me to die than—No one will make my boast empty! ^{17 18} What then is my reward? That when I preach, I may offer the gospel without charge and so not take full use of my right in the gospel. ^{19 20} To the Jews I became like a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law, I became like one under the law in order to win those under the law. I did this even though I myself was not under the law.