^{12 Ref} If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

^{13 Ref} Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

^{14 Ref} Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

^{15 Ref} But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

^{16 Ref} For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

^{17 Ref} But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

^{18 Ref} What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

^{19 Ref} For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

^{20 Ref} And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

^{21 Ref} To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

^{22 Ref} To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

^{23 Ref} And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.