1 Corinthians 9:15–23

¹⁵But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast. ¹⁶For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings. ¹⁷For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration. ¹⁸What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

¹⁹For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible. ²⁰And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law: ²¹to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law. ²²I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some. ²³And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.