Williams(i)
12 If others share this right with you, have we not a stronger claim? Yet, we have never used this right; no, we keep on bearing everything, to keep from hindering the progress of the good news of Christ.
13 Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?
14 Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.
15 But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.
16 For if I do preach the good news, I have no ground for boasting of it, for I cannot help doing it. Yes, indeed, I am accursed if I do not preach the good news.
17 For if I do it of my own accord, I get my pay; but if I am unwilling to do it, I still am entrusted with trusteeship.
18 Then what is the pay that I am getting? To be able to preach the good news without expense to anybody, and so never to make full use of my rights in preaching the good news.
19 Yes, indeed, though I am free from any human power, I have made myself a slave to everybody, to win as many as possible.
20 To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;
21 to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.
22 To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them.
23 And I do it all for the sake of the good news, so as to share with others in its blessings.