9:16For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for sorrow is to me if I preach not the gospel.

17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me:

18What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

19For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

23And I do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.

24Know you not that those who run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize$1 So run that you may obtain.

25And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one.

26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:

27But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

84:3my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

4For the sparrow has found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

5Blessed are those that dwell in your house, O Lord: they shall praise you forever and ever.

6Blessed is the man whose help is from you: in his heart he has disposed to ascend by steps,

12For God loves mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

6:39And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch?

40The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

41And why seest you the mote in your brother's eye: but the beam that is in your own eye you considerest not?

42Or how canst you say to your brother: Brother, let me pull the mote out of your eye, when you yourself seest not the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to take out the mote from your brother's eye.