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.
But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;