Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?

独有我与巴拿巴没有权柄不做工吗？

只有我和巴拿巴没有权利不做工吗？

只有我和巴拿巴没有权利不做工吗？

难道只有我和巴拿巴要自食其力吗？

难道只有我和巴拿巴没有权利不作工吗？

难道只有我和巴拿巴没有不做工的权利吗？

獨有我與巴拿巴沒有權柄不做工嗎？

只有我和巴拿巴沒有權利不做工嗎？

只有我和巴拿巴沒有權利不做工嗎？

難道只有我和巴拿巴要自食其力嗎？

難道只有我和巴拿巴沒有權利不作工嗎？

抑或是說，惟獨我和巴拿巴沒有權利不作謀生的工麼？

難道只有我和巴拿巴沒有不做工的權利嗎？

抑我及巴拿巴、獨無權不操作乎、

抑我及巴拿巴、非得不工而食乎、

抑我與巴拿巴、不得不作工乎、

抑吾與巴拿巴必須躬自操作、自食其力耶？

Or are Barnabas and I the only ones who have to do other work for a living? Are we the only ones who can’t just do the work of apostles all the time?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to work to support ourselves?

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

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

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

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

Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you,nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen( who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,“ Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas( which means“ son of encouragement”),

and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.

Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

But the Jewish leaders incited the God- fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.

News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker.

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas,“ Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them,

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said:‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;