Am I not a free man? Or am I not an apostle? Or have I not seen Y'shua the Mashiyach our Master? Or have you not been my work in my Master?

And if to others I have not been an apostle, yet to you I am; and you are the seal of my apostleship.

And my defense to those who judge me is this:

Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

Or do we not have authority to take around a sister as a wife, just as the rest of the apostles, and as the brothers of our Master, and as Keefa?

Or only I and Barnabas, do we not have authority not to work?

Who is it that serves in war at his own expense? Or who is it that plants a vineyard and does not eat from its fruits? Or who is it that tends a flock and does not eat from the milk of his flock?

Do I say these things as a man? See, the law also says these things.

For it is written in the law of Moshe: You shall not muzzle the ox that is threshing. Is Elohim concerned about oxen?

But it is clear that he said it for our sake. And indeed it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the one who threshes in hope of the crop.

If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it a great thing if we reap bodily things from you?

And if others have authority over you, do we not have it still more? Yet we have not used this authority, but we endure everything so that we might not hinder the announcement of the Mashiyach in anything.

Do you not know that those who serve in the house of holiness are sustained from the house of holiness, and those who serve at the altar share with the altar?

In this way also our Master has commanded that those who proclaim his good news should live from his good news.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written this so that it would be so for me; for it is better for me to die than that anyone should empty my boasting.

For while I proclaim, I have no ground of boasting, because necessity is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, a stewardship is entrusted to me.

What then is my reward? It is, that when I proclaim, I make the good news of the Mashiyach without cost, and do not use the authority given me in the good news.

For though I am free from all of them, I have subjected myself to every person, that I might gain many.

And with the Yehudaye I was as a Yehudaya, that I might gain the Yehudaye; and with those under the law I was as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

and to those who have no law I was as without law, though I am not without law to Elohim, but in the law of the Mashiyach, that I might gain those who are without law.

I was with the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to every person, that I might give life to every one.

And this I do, that I may be a partner in the announcement.

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the victory? Run so that you may attain.

But every person who does the contest holds his mind from everything. And these run that they may take a crown that perishes; but we, one that does not perish.

I therefore thus run, not as upon something that is not known; and thus I struggle, not as one who beats the air.

But I subdue my body and make it subject, lest somehow when I have proclaimed to others, I myself should be rejected.