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If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.
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Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?
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Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
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But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!
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For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
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What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
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For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;
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and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;
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to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law;
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to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.