46:009:011 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
46:009:012 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we
rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer
all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
46:009:013 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live
of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar
are partakers with the altar?
46:009:014 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
46:009:015 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.
46:009:016 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!
46:009:017 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.
46:009:018 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.
46:009:019 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
46:009:020 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the
Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I
might gain them that are under the law;