1 Corinthians 9:12-18

Wesley(i) 12 If others partake of this power over you, do not we rather? Yet we have not used this power: but we suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 Know ye not, that they who are employed about holy things, are fed out of the temple? And they who wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar. 14 So also hath the Lord ordained, that they who preach the gospel, should live of the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things; nor have I written thus, that it might be done so unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make this my glorying void. 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for a necessity lieth upon me, and wo is me, if I preach not the gospel. 17 If indeed I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, yet a dispensation is intrusted to me. 18 What then is my reward? that when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.