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.

我若甘心做这事，就有赏赐；若不甘心，责任却已经托付我了。

我若甘心做这事，就有赏赐；若不甘心，责任却已经托付给我了。

我若甘心做这事，就有赏赐；若不甘心，责任却已经托付给我了。

我若甘心乐意地传福音，就可以得奖赏；我若不甘愿，责任也已经委托给我了。

如果我甘心作这事，就有赏赐；即使不甘心，这职责还是托付我了。

如果我自愿做这事，就有报偿；如果我不自愿，这任务也已经委托给我了。

我若甘心做這事，就有賞賜；若不甘心，責任卻已經託付我了。

我若甘心做這事，就有賞賜；若不甘心，責任卻已經託付給我了。

我若甘心做這事，就有賞賜；若不甘心，責任卻已經託付給我了。

我若甘心樂意地傳福音，就可以得獎賞；我若不甘願，責任也已經委託給我了。

如果我甘心作這事，就有賞賜；即使不甘心，這職責還是託付我了。

我若甘心作這事，便有賞報；若不甘心，管家職責也已託付我了。

如果我自願做這事，就有報償；如果我不自願，這任務也已經委託給我了。

若我有志為之、則有賞、即非我志、其任已託於我、

且無為而為之、此吾所以自詡、有為而為之、則吾惟任其責、

我若樂意為此、則必得賞、若不樂意、則其任仍託於我、

若予之傳道為出於自動、則受酬宜也、今既有所受命、則在予為一受託之義務而已。

If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.

If I preach because I want to, I get a reward. If I preach because I have to, I’m only doing my duty.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.

If I were doing this on my own initiative, I would deserve payment. But I have no choice, for God has given me this sacred trust.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a commission.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a commission nonetheless.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

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.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

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.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying,“ Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said,“ Here I am. Send me!”

“ Behold, I have told you beforehand.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

Moses said,“ Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said,“ What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.He prayed to Yahweh, and said,“ Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

The Lord said,“ Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

“ Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies,“ neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.