8. Am I saying these things according to man? Or does the law not also say these things?
9. For it is written in the law of Moses: "You shall not bind the mouth of an ox, while it is treading out the grain." Is God here concerned with the oxen?
10. Or is he saying this, indeed, for our sake? These things were written specifically for us, because he who plows, ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes, too, in hope of receiving the produce.
11. If we have sown spiritual things in you, is it important if we harvest from your worldly things?
12. If others are sharers in this authority over you, why are we not more entitled? And yet we have not used this authority. Instead, we bear all things, lest we give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
13. Do you not know that those who work in the holy place eat the things that are for the holy place, and that those who serve at the altar also share with the altar?
14. So, too, has the Lord ordained that those who announce the Gospel should live by the Gospel.
15. Yet I have used none of these things. And I have not written so that these things may be done for me. For it is better for me to die, rather than to let anyone empty out my glory.
16. For if I preach the Gospel, it is not glory for me. For an obligation has been laid upon me. And woe to me, if I do not preach the Gospel.
17. For if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if I do this reluctantly, a dispensation is granted to me.
18. And what, then, would be my reward? So, when preaching the Gospel, I should give the Gospel without taking, so that I may not misuse my authority in the Gospel.
19. For when I was a free man to all, I made myself the servant of all, so that I might gain all the more.
20. And so, to the Jews, I became like a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews.