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!
Psalms 128:1-6