If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but bear all things, lest we should hinder the good news of the Messiah.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written 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 boasting void.
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the good news, I may make the good news of the Messiah without charge, that I abuse not my power in the good news.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the opportunity from them which desire an opportunity; that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.