1 Corinthians 9:23

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

World English 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 as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

2 Timothy 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Hebrews 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

1 Peter 5:1Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will 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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