1 Corinthians 9
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1 Corinthians 9:16-23

16For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boastG2745 of; for a necessityG318 isG1510 laid upon me; for it isG1510 woeG3759 to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a rewardG3408; but if not of my own will, I am entrustedG4100 with an administrationG3622.

18What isG1510 the rewardG3408 thenG3767 that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], soG2443 as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my rightG1849 in [announcing] the glad tidings.

19For beingG1510 freeG1658 from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gainG2770 the most [possible].

20And I becameG1096 to the JewsG2453 as a JewG2453, in orderG2443 that I might gainG2770 the JewsG2453: to those under lawG3551, as under lawG3551, not beingG1510 myself under lawG3551, in orderG2443 that I might gainG2770 those under lawG3551:

21to those without lawG459, as without lawG459, (not as without lawG459 to 1GodG2316, but as legitimately subject to ChristG5547,) in orderG2443 that I might gainG2770 [those] without lawG459.

22I becameG1096 to the weakG772, [as] weakG772, in orderG2443 that I might gainG2770 the weakG772. To all I have becomeG1096 all thingsG3956, in orderG2443 that at all events I might saveG4982 some.

23And I do all thingsG3956 for the sakeG1223 of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

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  1. 1. 1 Corinthians 9:21 9.21 Elohim ↩

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