American Standard Version
"For 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. "
— 1 Corinthians 9:17, American Standard Version
“For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.”
“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.”
“For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.”
“For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me.”
“But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.”
“For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.”
Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.
But 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 glorying void.
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.
For 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.
What 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.
For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;