1 Corinthians 9:15–22

¹⁵And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void; ¹⁶for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news; ¹⁷for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—with a stewardship I have been entrusted! ¹⁸What, then, is my reward?—that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news.

¹⁹For being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain; ²⁰and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain; ²¹to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ)—that I might gain those without law; ²²I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.