1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

24Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

2 Timothy 2:6The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.

Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

1 Peter 5:1The elders which [are] among you I exhort, who [am their] fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also [am] partaker of the glory about 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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