1 Corinthians 9:23

And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may share its benefits with you.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

24Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

2 Timothy 2:6It is necessary that, the farmer should labor, before he partakes of the fruits.

Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

1 Peter 5:1The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

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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