1 Corinthians 9:16 - Tree of Life Version

For if I proclaim the Good News, I have no reason to boast—for pressure is put on me and woe to me if I don’t proclaim the Good News!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For if I [merely] preach the Gospel, that gives me no reason to boast, for I feel compelled of necessity to do it. Woe is me if I do not preach the glad tidings (the Gospel)!

American Standard Version (1901)

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

Common English Bible

If I preach the gospel, I have no reason to brag, since I’m obligated to do it. I’m in trouble if I don’t preach the gospel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For if I preach the Gospel, it is not glory for me. For an obligation has been laid upon me. And woe to me, if I do not preach the Gospel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:16 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: “Oy to me! For I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling among a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”

Jeremiah 1:17

Now, you, gird up your loins! Get up and tell them everything that I order you! Do not be terrified by them, or else I will terrify you before them.

Jeremiah 20:7

Adonai, You enticed me, so I was enticed. You overpowered me, and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long. Everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 20:9

But if I say: “I won’t mention Him, or speak any more in His Name,” then it is like fire burning in my heart— shut up in my bones— I weary myself holding it in, but I cannot.

Amos 3:8

A lion has roared, who will not fear? My Lord Adonai has spoken, who shall not prophesy?

Amos 7:15

But Adonai took me from following the flock and Adonai said to me: ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’

Matthew 25:16

“Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them and gained five more.

Luke 9:62

But Yeshua said to him, “No one who has put his hand to the plow and looked back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Acts 4:20

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a choice instrument to carry My name before nations and kings and Bnei-Yisrael.

Acts 9:6

But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Romans 1:14

I have an obligation to both Greeks and barbarians, to both the wise and the foolish.

Romans 15:17

So in Messiah Yeshua, I have reason to boast before God.

Romans 4:2

For if Abraham was set right by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Messiah, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father through the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have a share in this claim over you, shouldn’t we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we put up with all things so that we cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah.

1 Corinthians 9:14

So also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the Good News to get their living from the Good News.

2 Corinthians 2:12

Now when I arrived in Troas for the Good News of Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

Colossians 4:17

Tell Archippus, “See to it that you complete the service you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”

1 Samuel 12:23

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Adonai by ceasing to pray for you! Yet I will keep instructing you in the good and straight way.