1 Corinthians 9:17
“For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.”
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
Cross-References
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.”
“But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;”
“Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
“Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.”