Don’t we have the right to live in your homes and share your meals?

难道我们没有权柄靠福音吃喝吗？

难道我们没有权利靠着传福音吃喝吗？

难道我们没有权利靠着传福音吃喝吗？

难道我们没有权利接受弟兄姊妹供应的饮食吗？

难道我们没有权利吃喝吗？

难道我们没有权利吃喝吗？

難道我們沒有權柄靠福音吃喝嗎？

難道我們沒有權利靠着傳福音吃喝嗎？

難道我們沒有權利靠着傳福音吃喝嗎？

難道我們沒有權利接受弟兄姊妹供應的飲食嗎？

難道我們沒有權利吃喝嗎？

難道我們沒有權利靠着福音而喫喝麼？

難道我們沒有權利吃喝嗎？

我豈無權式飲式食乎、

余豈不能使爾供飲食乎、

我豈無權飲食乎、

然則吾輩豈無權受人供養、以飲以食乎？

Don’t we have the right to food and drink?

Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

Do we not have the right to eat and drink?

Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

Do we have no right to eat and drink?

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

Do we not have the right to financial support?

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

As for human praise, we have never sought it from you or anyone else.

We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night so we would not be a burden to any of you.We certainly had the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to give you an example to follow.

What soldier has to pay his own expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to drink some of the milk?Am I expressing merely a human opinion, or does the law say the same thing?For the law of Moses says,“ You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.” Was God thinking only about oxen when he said this?Wasn’t he actually speaking to us? Yes, it was written for us, so that the one who plows and the one who threshes the grain might both expect a share of the harvest.Since we have planted spiritual seed among you, aren’t we entitled to a harvest of physical food and drink?If you support others who preach to you, shouldn’t we have an even greater right to be supported? But we have never used this right. We would rather put up with anything than be an obstacle to the Good News about Christ.Don’t you realize that those who work in the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings.In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it.

Those who are taught the word of God should provide for their teachers, sharing all good things with them.

Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.For the Scripture says,“ You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.” And in another place,“ Those who work deserve their pay!”

Don’t move around from home to home. Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve their pay.

Don’t carry a traveler’s bag with a change of clothes and sandals or even a walking stick. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed.

Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you.