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12 If others are partakers of the right over you, should we also partake? Nevertheless we have not used this power! We suffer all things, lest we should hinder the good news of Christ.
13 Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Even so, has the Lord ordained that they who preach the good news should earn their living from the good news?
15 But I have used none of these rights! Neither have I written these things, that it should be done to me. It would be better for me to die, than that any man should make my reason for boasting void.
16 Though I preach the good news I do not brag about it. Preaching the good news is my duty (obligation) and I must do it! It would be terrible if I did not preach the good news!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, I am just performing the trust of the good news committed to me.
18 What is my reward then? When I preach the good news, I may offer the good news of Christ without charge. That is way I do not abuse my power in the good news.
19 For, though I am free from all persons, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain more.
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews. To those under the Law, as under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law.
21 To those without Law I became like those without Law that I might gain them. I am not without law to God, but under the law to (toward) (of) Christ.
22 To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the sake of the good news that I might be a partaker of it with others.