1 Corinthians 9:23

And I am doing it all for the gospel’s sake, that I may become a copartner in it.

Montgomery 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

22I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

24Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ’s gospel.

2 Corinthians 2:4For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, through many tears; not to pain you, but to convince you of my love, my abundant love for you.

2 Timothy 2:6The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.

Hebrews 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

1 Peter 5:1Now to you who are presbyters I make this appeal; for I am myself a presbyter, and was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a 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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