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.

But as it is brothers, if I come back to you and speak ecstatically, what good will I do you, unless I have some revelation or special knowledge or message or teaching to give you?

Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf?

What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

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.

Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

I consider this, then, to be, good, in the circumstances, by reason of the existing distress, - that it is, good for a man, so, to be:

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

Next, Brothers, I would remind you of the Good News which I told you, and which you received-the Good News on which you have taken your stand,

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.

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.

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

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.