(13)Know ye not that they who are employed about the holy things, are fed from the temple? and they who serve at the altar, partake with the altar? (14)So also the Lord hath commanded to those who preach the gospel, that they should live by the gospel. (15)But I have used nothing of these things, nor have I written indeed these things, that it should be so done respecting me; for it would become me to die rather than that any man should make my glorying void. (16)For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me, yea verily woe is to me if I preach not the gospel. (17)For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with the dispensation _of it_. (18)What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may put the gospel of Christ to no expence, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. (19)For though I be free from all men, I have made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. (20)And I became to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; (21)to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law. (22)I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak; I became all things to all men, that by every means I might save some. (23)And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be a partaker of it with you. (24)Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (25)And every one who contendeth _in the games_ is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. (26)I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air: (27)but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate. CHAP. X. BUT I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2)and were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; (3)and did all eat the same spiritual meat; (4)and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them; but that rock was Christ. (5)Nevertheless with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were destroyed in the wilderness.