1 Corinthians 9:19

Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

In Context

18What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

20To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law--although I am not--in order to win those who are under the Law;

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Cross References

Matthew 20:26Not so shall it be among you; but whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant,

Romans 1:14I am already under obligations alike to Greek-speaking races and to others, to cultured and to uncultured people:

Romans 15:2Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up.

1 Corinthians 9:1Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 10:33That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 9:16-19

The Apostle's Devotedness. ( a. d. 57.) 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is… Read the whole commentary →

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