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¹⁵ But I am not used in one of these; nor on this account have I thus written, that so it should be done unto me: for it were better for me that dying I should die, than that any man my glorying should make void.¹⁶ Yet also in preaching I have no cause to glory: for necessity lieth upon me; for woe to me unless I preach !¹⁷ For if with my will I do this, I have a reward. But if without my will, (yet) a stewardship is confided to me.¹⁸ What, then, is my reward ? That while preaching without expenses I may perform the annunciation of the Meshiha, and not abuse the power that is given to me in the gospel.

¹⁹ For while free of all men, to all men I subject myself, that the many I may gain.²⁰ And I become with the Jihudoyee as a Jihudoya, that the Jihudoyee I may gain; and with them who are under the law, I become as one under the law, that them who are under the law I may gain;²¹ and to those who have not the law I become as one without law, while I am not unto Aloha without law, but in the law of the Meshiha, that them also who have not law I may gain.²² I become with the weak as weak, that the weak I may gain. To all men all become I, that every man I may save.²³ But this I do that I may be a participator in the gospel.

²⁴ Know you not, that they who run in the course, run all, but one taketh to him the victory ? So run, that you may take hold.²⁵ For every man who contendeth from every thing (besides with) holdeth his mind; and they who run (do it) that they may receive a crown that is corruptible, but we one that is incorruptible.²⁶ I therefore so run, not as about a thing unknown; and so smite I, as not smiting the air;²⁷ but my body I subdue and make subservient, lest when to others I shall have preached, I my very self shall be rejected.