Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
no bag for your journey, nor change of linen, nor shoes, nor stick; for the labourer deserves his food.
And in that same house stay, eating and drinking at their table; for the labourer deserves his wages. Do not move from one house to another.
No one's silver or gold or clothing have I coveted.
That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.
nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.
For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.
