17. For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
18. What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News of Messiah without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19. For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20. To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21. to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law towards God, but under law towards Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.
22. To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23. Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24. Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
25. Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26. I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27. but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.