16. for 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;
17. for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly--with a stewardship I have been entrusted!
18. What, 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;
19. for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;
20. and 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;
21. to those without law, as without law--(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) --that I might gain those without law;
22. I 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.
23. And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
24. have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
25. and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;