Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

And there are different ministries, but the same Lord.

I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. So then, recognize people like this.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.