1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed unto me.
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15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed unto me.
18 What is my reward then? that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Messiah without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all , yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.