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


In Context

14 so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

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

18 What, then, is my reward? — that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

19 for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.