1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
19Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.
Cross References
Romans 14:15If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:9But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 10:33For 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.
2 Corinthians 11:7Is it a sin, forsooth, that I humbled myself that you might be exalted, in preaching the gospel to you free of cost?
1 Thessalonians 2:6Now was I seeking glory from men, either yourselves or others, although I might have exercised authority as Christ’s apostle.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:16-19
The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 15 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. 16 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! 17 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. 18 What is… Read the whole commentary →