9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s ^zfield, God’s ^abuilding.

10 According to ^bthe grace of God given to me, like a skilled¹ master builder I laid a foundation, and ^csomeone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation ^dother than that which is laid, ^ewhich is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the ^fDay will ^gdisclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

18 What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel ^hfree of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a ⁱservant to all, that I might ^jwin more of them. 20 ^kTo the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those ^lunder the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one ^moutside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the ⁿlaw of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the ^oweak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become ^pall things to all people, that by all means I might ^qsave some. 23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the ^rprize? So ^srun that you may obtain it. 25 Every ^tathlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable ^uwreath, but we an ^vimperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control,¹ lest after preaching to others I myself should be ^wdisqualified.