1 Corinthians 9:17

“Even now he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

“I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

Let a man consider us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my authority in the gospel.

But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised

not because we do not have the authority, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would imitate us.