Either saith he it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he which eareth should ear in hope: and that he which thresheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope.

Perceive ye not how that they which run in a course, run all, yet but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain.

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all men, that I might win the more.

If we sow unto you spiritual things: is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?

If others be partakers of this power over you, wherefore are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power: but suffer all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Do ye not understand how that they which minister in the temple, have their finding of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Even so also did the Lord ordain, that they which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel.

But I have used none of these things. Neither wrote I these things that it should be so done unto me. For it were better for me to die than any man should take this rejoicing from me.

If I do it with a good will, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, an office is committed unto me.

And unto the Jews, I became as a Jew, to win the Jews. To them that were under the law, was I made as though I had been under the law, to win them that were under the law.

To them that were without law, became I as though I had been without law - when I was not without law as pertaining to God, but under a law as concerning Christ - to win them that were without law.

What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the gospel, I make the gospel of Christ free, that I misuse not mine authority in the gospel.

If I be not an apostle unto others, yet am I unto you. For the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

For it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn." Doth God take thought for oxen?

Either only I and Barnabas have not power this to do?

Who goeth a warfare any time at his own cost? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit? Or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk?

I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I might have my part thereof.

Mine answer to them that ask me, is this:

Say I these things after the manner of men? Or sayeth not the law the same also?

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

In that I preach the gospel, I have nothing to rejoice of. For necessity is put unto me. Woe is it unto me if I preach not the gospel.

To the weak became I as weak, to win the weak. In all thing I fashioned myself to all men, to save, at the leastway, some.

but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown.

Either, have we not power to lead about a sister to wife as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?