CLV(i)
16 For if I should be bringing the evangel, it is not for me to boast in, for necessity is lying upon me, for it were woe to me if I should not be bringing the evangel!"
17 For if I am engaging in this voluntarily, I have wages, yet if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with an administration."
18 What, then, is my wage? That, in bringing the evangel, I should be placing the evangel without expense, so as not to use up my authority in the evangel."
19 For, being free of all, I enslave myself to all, that I should be gaining the more."
20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I should be gaining Jews; to those under law as under law (not being myself under law), that I should be gaining those under law;"
21 to those without law as without law (not being without God's law, but legally Christ's), that I should be gaining those without law."
22 I became as weak to the weak, that I should be gaining the weak. To all have I become all, that I should undoubtedly be saving some."
23 Now all am I doing because of the evangel, that I may be becoming a joint participant of it."