1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this voluntarily, there is a reward for me: but if involuntarily, a stewardship is intrusted to me.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16For while I preach, I have no ground of glorying; because necessity is laid upon me, and woe to me, if I preach not.

18What then is my reward? It is, that when I preach, I make the announcement of the Messiah without cost, and use not the prerogative given me in the gospel.

Read all of 1 Corinthians 9

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 1 Corinthians 9:17