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16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid on me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news; 17 for if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—I have been entrusted with a stewardship! 18 What, then, is my reward? That proclaiming good news, without charge I will make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news; 19 for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain; 20 and to the Jews I became like a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law as under law, 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)—that I might gain those without law; 22 to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some. 23 And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it; 24 have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain; 25 and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible; 26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; 27 but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved. 1 Corinthians 9:16-27, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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