1 Corinthians 9:14-19 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

14. So also the Master instituted that those announcing the Good News should live from the Good News.

15. But I have used none of these, nor have I written this that it should be done so to me. For it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting empty.

16. For if I bring the Good News, it is no boasting for me, for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not bring the Good News!

17. For if I do this voluntarily I have a reward, but if not voluntarily, I am entrusted with a management.

18. What then is my reward? That in bringing the Good News, I should offer the Good News of Messiah without cost, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

19. For though I am free from all, I made myself a servant to all, in order to win more,

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