1 Corinthians 9:17

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“For 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.”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“For 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.”

— ASV

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Commentary

Translate, "If I be doing this (that is, preaching) of my own accord (which I am not, for the 'necessity' is laid on me which binds a servant to obey his master), I have a reward; but if (as is the case) involuntarily (Act 9:15; Act 22:15; Act 26:16); not of my own natural will, but by the constraining grace of God; (Rom 9:16; Ti1 1:13-16), I have had a dispensation (of the Gospel) entrusted to me" (and so can claim no "reward," seeing that I only "have done that which was my duty to do," Luk 17:10, but incur the "woe," Co1 9:16, if I fail in it).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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