1 Corinthians 9:12-23 If others have this authority over you, have we not the more right? Nevertheless we have not used this authority; but we have endured all things so that we would not hinder the gospel of Christ.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² If others have this authority over you, have we not the more right? Nevertheless we have not used this authority; but we have endured all things so that we would not hinder the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who work in the holy place are maintained out of the temple? And those who minister at the altar share the offerings with the altar? ¹⁴ Even so has our LORD commanded that those who preach his gospel should live by his gospel. ¹⁵ But I have used none of these privileges: neither have I written these things that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should declare my pride in my teaching worthless. ¹⁶ For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for I am under obligation; yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel! ¹⁷ For if I do this thing willingly, I have my reward: but if against my will, it is like a stewardship intrusted to me. ¹⁸ What then is my wage? This is it. When I preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do it without thought of recompense, and I have not abused the power given to me in the gospel. ¹⁹ Because I am free from all these things, I have served all men that I may gain many. ²⁰ So with the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; and with those who are under the law, I became as one who is under the law, in order to win those who are under the law. ²¹ To those who are without law, I became like one who is without law, though I am not lawless before God because I am under the law of Christ, that I might win them who are without law. ²² With the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak: I became everything to every man, that I might by all means save everyone. ²³ And this I do for the gospelÆs sake, that I might be partaker of it.