1 Corinthians 9:23

And I do all things for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

Revised Version 1895

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 am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

2 Timothy 2:6The husbandman that laboureth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

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

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