For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.

If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ.

Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news.

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

And this. I do on account of the good news, that I might become a partaker of it.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news which I announced to you, which also ye received, and in which ye stood;