17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me:


In Context

14 So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.

15 But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die, rather than that any man should make my glory void.

16 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.

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me:

18 What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

19 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 9:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:17If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:17for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly — with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.