1 Corinthians 9:15–22

¹⁵But I have not made use of any of these rights. And I am not writing these things in order that it may be thus with me. For it would be better to me rather to die than for anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting. ¹⁶For if I proclaim the gospel, it is not to me a reason for boasting, for necessity is imposed on me. For woe is to me if I do not proclaim the gospel. ¹⁷For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. ¹⁸What then is my reward? That when I^* proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

¹⁹For although I^* am free from all people, I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more. ²⁰I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law I became as under the law (although I^* myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law. ²¹To those outside the law I became as outside the law (although I^* am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law. ²²To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, in order that by all means I may save some.