Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

 My defense to those who examine me is this:

Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or do only Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from working?

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?

I am not just asserting these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well?

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.

 If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

내가 자유인이 아니냐 사도가 아니냐 예수 우리 주를 보지 못하였느냐 주 안에서 행한 나의 일이 너희가 아니냐

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

다른 사람들에게는 내가 사도가 아닐지라도 너희에게는 사도이니 나의 사도 됨을 주 안에서 인친 것이 너희라

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

나를 비판하는 자들에게 변명할 것이 이것이니

 My defense to those who examine me is this:

우리가 먹고 마실 권리가 없겠느냐

Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

우리가 다른 사도들과 주의 형제들과 게바와 같이 믿음의 자매 된 아내를 데리고 다닐 권리가 없겠느냐

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

어찌 나와 바나바만 일하지 아니할 권리가 없겠느냐

Or do only Barnabas and I have no right to refrain from working?

누가 자기 비용으로 군 복무를 하겠느냐 누가 포도를 심고 그 열매를 먹지 않겠느냐 누가 양 떼를 기르고 그 양 떼의 젖을 먹지 않겠느냐

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?

내가 사람의 예대로 이것을 말하느냐 율법도 이것을 말하지 아니하느냐

I am not just asserting these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does the Law not say these things as well?

모세의 율법에 곡식을 밟아 떠는 소에게 망을 씌우지 말라 기록하였으니 하나님께서 어찌 소들을 위하여 염려하심이냐

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

오로지 우리를 위하여 말씀하심이 아니냐 과연 우리를 위하여 기록된 것이니 밭 가는 자는 소망을 가지고 갈며 곡식 떠는 자는 함께 얻을 소망을 가지고 떠는 것이라

Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.

우리가 너희에게 신령한 것을 뿌렸은즉 너희의 육적인 것을 거두기로 과하다 하겠느냐

 If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

다른 이들도 너희에게 이런 권리를 가졌거든 하물며 우리일까보냐 그러나 우리가 이 권리를 쓰지 아니하고 범사에 참는 것은 그리스도의 복음에 아무 장애가 없게 하려 함이로다

If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.