1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do all for the sake of the gospel, that I may with others partake of it.

Noyes 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 weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.

24Know ye not, that of those who run in the race-course all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.

2 Timothy 2:6The husbandman that laboreth must be the first partaker of the fruits.

Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high-priest of our profession, Jesus;

1 Peter 5:1The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also 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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