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.
24. Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it.
25. And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we, an incorruptible one.