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Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
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If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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My defense to those who examine me is this:
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Do we have no right to eat and drink?
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Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
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Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?
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Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?