1 Corinthians 9:23

I do this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

Majority Standard Bible

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 is weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

2 Timothy 2:6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.

Hebrews 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus Christ, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

1 Peter 5:1As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to 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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