1 Corinthians 9:17 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 9:17

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

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ASV

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.

WEB

If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.

YLT

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

DBT

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

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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43 verses on the floor

2 Chronicles 15:7
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
Revelation 22:12
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Colossians 3:24
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Galatians 2:7
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
Romans 3:2
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

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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 (Ac 9:15; 26:16); not of my own natural will, but by the constraining grace of God;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

And so, in the next verse, another might have used that power without abusing it. But his own using it at all, he would have termed abusing it. A dispensation is intrusted to me - Therefore I dare not refrain.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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