The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: 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.
CO1 9:16 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!
CO1 9:17 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.
CO1 9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel,
I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my
power in the gospel.
CO1 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself
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