Not itenerent.
3This is my defense to those who would examine me.
4Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
5Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,[SUP]
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as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
6Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
8Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
9For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
10Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
11If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more?
Nevertheless,
we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
13Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?
14In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
Peter had this right. And Peter had a wife and was stationed in Jerusalem. What is the right? The right to ask for substance materially in return for substance spiritually. Peter was NOT an itenerent.
It was not because Paul traveled that he had the right, but because of the spiritual substance he gave. This is the essence of this entire chapter. Which is why Paul quotes the OT about the Ox not being Muzzled.
You my friend are muzzling the oxes with your interpretation.
Paul had the right to not work and he gave it up out of his free choice. This is not a law, but this was his heart.