008:012 Moreover when you thus sin against the brethren and wound their
weak consciences, you are, in reality, sinning against Christ.
008:013 Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again
to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food,
for fear I should cause my brother to fall.
009:001 Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I
have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work
in the Lord?
009:002 If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you;
for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal
of my Apostleship.
009:003 That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
009:004 Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
009:005 Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do— and the Lord's brothers and Peter?
009:006 Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
009:007 What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?
009:008 Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations?
Does not the Law speak in the same tone?