14. So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.
15. But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.
16. For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.
17. For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.
18. What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.
19. For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.
20. And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law: