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12 If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
13 Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?
14 And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good news to live from the good news.
15 But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.
16 For if I preach the good news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good news.
17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.
18 What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good news, I may make the good news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good news.
19 For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more.
20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews, to those under law, as under law, so that I might gain those under law,
21 to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.
22 To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.
23 And I do this for sake of the good news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.