King James 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."
— 1 Corinthians 9:17, King James 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. ”
“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 hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
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.
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;