9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? 9:2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 9:3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 9:4 Do we not have the right to our food and drink? 9:5 Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 9:6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? 9:7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? 9:8 Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same? 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 9:10 Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop.

128:1 A Song of Ascents. Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! 128:2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. 128:4 Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD. 128:5 The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! 128:6 May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!