14. Even so the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
15. But I have used none of these things, neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me; for it were better for me to die than that anyone should make this my glory void.
16. For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!
17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, the stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.
18. What reward, then, shall I have? That preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel of the Christ without charge, that I abuse not my authority in the gospel.
19. Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself slave unto all, that I might gain the more.
20. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;
21. to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.
22. To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.
23. And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker together of it.