for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News. 009:017 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. 009:018 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News. 009:019 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 009:020 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 009:021 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 009:022 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 009:023 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 009:024 Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. 009:025 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 009:026 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 009:027 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. 010:001 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 010:002 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 010:003 and all ate the same spiritual food; 010:004 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 010:005 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 010:006 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 010:007 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."{Exodus 32:6} 010:008 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 010:009 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 010:010 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 010:011 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.