1 ^jAm I not free? ^kAm I not an apostle? ^lHave I not seen Jesus our Lord? ^mAre not you my workmanship in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are ⁿthe seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 4 ^oDo we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 ^pDo we not have the right to take along a believing wife,¹ as do the other apostles and ^qthe brothers of the Lord and ^rCephas? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?