16. For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I 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 preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the 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 gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
24. Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
25. And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air:
27. but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.