1 Corinthians 9:16-23

American Standard Version

¹⁶ For if I ^[a]preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I ^[b]preach not the gospel. ¹⁷ For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That, when I ^[c]preach the gospel, I may make the ^[d]gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the ^[e]gospel. ¹⁹ For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰ And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; ²¹ to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. ²² To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. ²³ And I do all things for the ^[f]gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.