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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:15-18

Here he tells them that he had, notwithstanding, waived his privilege, and lays down his reason for doing it. I. He tells them that he had neglected to claim his right in times past: I have used none of these things, 1 Cor. 9:15. He neither ate nor drank himself at their cost, nor led about a wife to be maintained by them, nor forbore working to maintain himself. From others he received a maintenance, but not from them, for some special reasons. Nor did he write this to make his claim now.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:15-23

9:15-23 But I have claimed none of these rights. I am not writing this to claim that these privileges should be extended to me. I would rather die than let anyone make ineffective my boast that I take nothing for my work. If I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about in that. I do it because necessity is laid upon me. Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! If I do this of my own choice I do deserve a reward. But if I do it whether I like it or not, it is because I have been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:16

For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of ,.... The sense is not, that if he preached the Gospel in order for a livelihood, and to serve his private advantage, he should have no room for glorying; since, if this was the case, he should be obliged to do it, or perish for want: but his meaning is, that though he preached the Gospel ever so well, or ever so freely, and might glory before men, and against the false teachers, who insulted him in his character and office; yet not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this thing willingly ,.... That is, not freely and without receiving anything for preaching, without seeking any temporal profits and advantages; nor in pure love to Christ, and the good of souls, without any fear of punishment, or hope of reward; but the apostle supposes a case which was not, and his sense is, that supposing no necessity had been laid upon him, or any injunction or command given him to preach the Gospel, but he had entered on it without any obligation upon him,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:18

What is my reward then ?.... None at all, I have none to expect, hope for, or claim, in a way of debt; I am a servant intrusted by my Lord with the Gospel, and an unprofitable one I am; I do, at most and best, but what is my duty, and for that I can claim no reward: all the reward that remains is only this, verily, that when I preach the Gospel , which I am obliged to do, I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge ; to them that hear it, as he did to the Corinthians, which was... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:16

For though I preach the Gospel - I have cause of glorying that I preach the Gospel free of all charges to you; but I cannot glory in being a preacher of the Gospel, because I am not such either by my own skill or power. I have received both the office, and the grace by which I execute the office, from God. I have not only his authority to preach, but that authority obliges me to preach; and if I did not, I should endanger my salvation: yea, wo is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel. As every... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:17

For if I do this thing willingly - If I be a cordial co-operator with God, I have a reward, an incorruptible crown, 1 Corinthians 9:25 . Or, if I freely preach this Gospel without being burthensome to any, I have a special reward; but if I do not, I have simply an office to fulfill, into which God has put me, and may fulfill it conscientiously, and claim my privileges at the same time; but then I lose that special reward which I have in view by preaching the Gospel without charge to any. ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:18

That I abuse not my power - I am inclined to think that καταχρησασθαι is to be understood here, not in the sense of abusing, but of using to the uttermost - exacting every thing that a man can claim by law. How many proofs have we of this in preachers of different denominations, who insist so strongly and so frequently on their privileges, as they term them, that the people are tempted to believe they seek not their souls' interests, but their secular goods. Such preachers can do the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:16

Verse 16 16.For if I preach the gospel. To show how very important it was not to deprive himself of that ground of glorying, he intimates what would have happened, if he had simply discharged his ministry — that he would in this way have done nothing else than what the Lord had enjoined upon him by a strict necessity By doing that, he says, he would have had no occasion for glorying, as it was not in his power to avoid doing it. (493) It is asked, however, what glorying he here refers to, for... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:17

Verse 17 17.For if I do this thing willingly By reward here is meant what the Latins term operae pretium , recompense for labor, (495) and what he had previously termed glorying Others, however, interpret it otherwise — as meaning that a reward is set before all who discharge their duty faithfully and heartily. But, for my part, I understand the man who does this thing willingly, to be the man who acts with such cheerfulness, that, being intent upon edifying, as his one object of desire, he... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:15-18

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:15-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 9:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 9:17

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