17. For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
18. What then is my reward? That when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
19. For although I am free from all people, I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.
20. I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law I became as under the law (although I myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law.
21. To those outside the law I became as outside the law (although I am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.
22. To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, in order that by all means I may save some.
23. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, in order that I may become a participant with it.
24. Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.