¹⁵ For if you were to have countless ^(A)tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in ^(B)Christ Jesus I ^(C)became your father through the ^(D)gospel.

¹⁴ So also ^(A)the Lord directed those who proclaim the ^(B)gospel to ^(C)get their living from the gospel.

¹⁶ For if I proclaim the gospel, I have nothing to boast, for ^(A)I am under compulsion. For woe is me if I do not proclaim ^(B)the gospel.

¹⁸ What then is my ^(A)reward? That, when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel ^(B)without charge, so as ^(C)not to make full use of my authority in the gospel.

²³ So I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

¹² Now when I came to ^(A)Troas for the ^(B)gospel of Christ and when a ^(C)door was opened for me in the Lord,