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rather than that any man should make my glory to others, I myself should become a castaway.
void.
16 For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory
to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is Chapter 10
unto me if I preach not the gospel.
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a For I would not have you ignorant, brethren,
reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is that our fathers were all under the cloud, and
committed to me: all passed through the sea.
18 What is my reward then? That preach- 2 And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud,
ing the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without and in the sea:
charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 3 And did all eat the same spiritual food,
19 For whereas I was free as to all, I made 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and
myself the servant of all, that I might gain the they drank of the spiritual rock that followed
more. them, and the rock was Christ.)
20 And I became to the Jews, a Jew, that I
5 But with most of them God was not well
might gain the Jews:
pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.
21 To them that are under the law, as if I
6 Now these things were done in a figure of us,
were under the law, (whereas myself was not un-
that we should not covet evil things as they also
der the law,) that I might gain them that were
coveted.
under the law. To them that were without the
7 Neither become ye idolaters, as some of
law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was
them, as it is written: The people sat down to
not without the law of God, but was in the law of
eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Christ,) that I might gain them that were with-
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some
out the law.
of them committed fornication, and there fell in
22 To the weak I became weak, that I might
one day three and twenty thousand.
gain the weak. I became all things to all men,
9 Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them
that I might save all.
tempted, and perished by the serpents.
23 And I do all things for the gospel’s sake:
that I may be made partaker thereof. 10 Neither do you murmur: as some of them
24 Know you not that they that run in the murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize 11 Now all these things happened to them in
? So run that you may obtain. figure: and they are written for our correction,
25 And every one that striveth for the mas- upon whom the ends of the world are come.
tery, refraineth himself from all things: and 12 Wherefore he that thinketh himself to
they indeed that they may receive a corruptible stand, let him take heed lest he fall.
crown; but we an incorruptible one. 13 Let no temptation take hold on you, but
26 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: such as is human. And God is faithful, who will
I so fight, not as one beating the air: not suffer you to be tempted above that which
27 But I chastise my body, and bring it into you are able: but will make also with temptation
subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached issue, that you may be able to bear it.