1 Corinthians 9:16

New Testament Epistle (Pauline) ASV (1901)

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.

1 Corinthians 9:16 — American Standard Version

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Context — 1 Corinthians 9

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13Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?

14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

16For 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.

17For 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.

18What 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.

19For though I was free from all [men,] I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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