I am indeed.
This entire passage from 1Cor discusses Paul's thesis that he is compelled to preach the Gospel - that it is not an avocation or a hobby that he's taken up just because it's a good thing to do, but because he is compelled to do it - it is an oikonomia a task, an order, a responsibility committed to him by God.
So he is saying that if he preaches willingly so much the better for him because the preaching of the Gospel is a reward in itself for the man who enjoys preaching the Gospel, yet even if he doesn't preach willingly it doesn't matter because he is under orders to do so whether he enjoys it or not.
You guys would be better of if you would just believe what you read...
Oh, I believe what I read in Scripture. Which is a little different from believing what you imagine the Scriptures to say.
Allow me to provide a translation directly from the Greek into modern American language:
"Because if I do this of my own will I get a reward, but if I don't do it of my own will I am still entrusted with the task."
As a student of Biblical Greek that is my own word-for-word translation of the Greek Textus Receptus.
As a student of Biblical Greek that is my own word-for-word translation of the Greek Textus Receptus.
Well that's magnificant...King James used close to 50 of the best scholars/translators available in the world at that time to translate the Textus Receptus into English and you just corrected and topped them...
You got a future ahead of you...