1Cor 9:18-19 | JFB | STEP | 18. What is my reward? —The answer is in ; namely, that by making the Gospel without charge, where I might have rightfully claimed maintenance, I might "win the more." of Christ —The oldest manuscripts and versions omit these words. abuse —rather "that I use not to the full my power." This is his matter for " glorying "; the " reward " ultimately aimed at is the gaining of the more ( ). The former, as involving the latter, is verbally made the answer to the question, "What is my reward?" But really the "reward" is that which is the ultimate aim of his preaching without charge, namely, that he may gain the more; it was for this end, not to have matter of glorying, that he did so.

1 Corinthians 9:18-19

18. What is my reward?—The answer is in 1Co 9:19; namely, that by making the Gospel without charge, where I might have rightfully claimed maintenance, I might "win the more."

of Christ—The oldest manuscripts and versions omit these words.

abuse—rather "that I use not to the full my power." This is his matter for "glorying"; the "reward" ultimately aimed at is the gaining of the more (1Co 9:19). The former, as involving the latter, is verbally made the answer to the question, "What is my reward?" But really the "reward" is that which is the ultimate aim of his preaching without charge, namely, that he may gain the more; it was for this end, not to have matter of glorying, that he did so.

19. free from all men—that is, from the power of all men.

gain the more—that is, as many of them ("all men") as possible. "Gain" is an appropriate expression in relation to a "reward" (1Th 2:19, 20); he therefore repeats it frequently (1Co 9:20-22).