| 16 | For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! |
| 17 | For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. |
| 18 | What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel. |
| 19 | For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. |
| 20 | To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the law -- though not being myself under the law -- that I might win those under the law. |
| 21 | To those outside the law I became as one outside the law -- not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ -- that I might win those outside the law. |
| 22 | To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. |
| 23 | I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. |
| 27 | but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. |