1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

In Context

22To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

24Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

2 Timothy 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to partake of the fruits.

Hebrews 3:1Because of which, holy brothers, companions of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our affirmation, Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 5:1I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you:

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:20-24

The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain… Read the whole commentary →

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