1 Corinthians 9:4

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

So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;

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.